John O’Donohue’s blessing, For the Time of Necessary Decision, served me at a most critical point in writing Nest City. When I was trying to sort hundreds of pages of information into a cogent way of organizing my thinking, my mom gave me his book, To Bless this Space Between Us. When I read this piece, I saw immediately that the arc of Nest City follows the blessing in the form of 10 chapters and an epilogue:
1. The City Impulse
2. The Planning Impulse
3. The Thriving Impulse
4. An Uneasy Journey
5. Destination Alive or Adrift
6. Emerging Thresholds
7. (Un)Known Possibility
8. The City Making Exchange
9. Enduring Civic Practice
10. The Emerging City
Epilogue – The Soul’s desire