Chen, WenlingLevinson, David M2016-05-112016-05-112004Chen, Wenling and David Levinson (2004) Review of Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition by Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius and Werner Rothengatter and Mega-projects: The Challenging Politics of Urban Public Investment by Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff . Journal of Regional Science Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 617–619.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/180159Book Review: Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition by Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius and Werner Rothengatter Mega-projects: The Challenging Politics of Urban Public Investment by Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff Two recent books on the development and deployment of large projects have recently been released. Both books tackle Megaprojects, but from somewhat different points- of-view, one European, the other American; one disparaging, the other positive; one largely statistical-empirical, the other political-historical. We consider these books in turn.enArticle