A book about the art and science of life’s most difficult choices. If you’ve enjoyed some of the cross-disciplinary storytelling in my previous books, there is a lot in that vein to enjoy in Farsighted. It features stories drawn from critical decisions in urban planning — New York’s decision to bury Collect Pond in the early 1800s, and to build the High Line in the early 2000s — alongside stories of hard choices drawn from military history, most notably the decision process that led to the raid ...