Holiday Reading List

Here is the Division 4 Reading list for the Holidays.  Because you never know when you're snowed in at the cabin ...or stuck at Denver airport for 36 hours ...  Happy Holidays!

1.  Nate Silver’s book “The Signal and the Noise: Why so many predictions fail, but some don’t.”    Someone should review this from a litigation perspective, i.e. how do we predict the outcome of cases, and how can we do better. 

2.  Jane Jacobs  “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.”   Jacobs reminds us that the way space is configured—from organization cities to the layout of individual apartments, alters the path of human interaction in profound ways.  I would like someone to review this with an eye to how contracts are laid out and configured can profoundly affect human interaction in project delivery.

  

3.  Brett Frischmann “Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources.”  Explores how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how managmenet decisions affect a wide variety of interests.  Links infrastructure with commons, a resource principle by which a resource is shared within a community. 

4.  Edward Merrow, “Industrial Megaprojects.”   Among other things, it explains why industrial megaprojects fail.   This is recommended by Andy Ness. 

5.  The Forum’s new Infrastructure Book:  Beltzer, Gerhardt, Kubes, Smith

... please add yours.