A review by premature_insecurity
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

informative reflective
Read the first half for a uni assignment, listened to the rest on my own. 

Though a rather dull book, it has some interesting ideas and gives a very detailed (one could argue too detailed) description and analysis of different instances and interventions where high modernism has been an integral part.