Nest City is a book for professional planners or ordinary citizens who want to fall in love with their city. Beth offers them fresh lenses from which to appreciate their nest, new practices to improve city-making, and patterns to gain a better bird’s eye view of the aliveness they are co-creating.

Let this book take you by the hand. You will be nourished, informed, and shown the patterns that influence self, others, city, and the power of compassion like a caring mentor who would support your whole person to blossom.

No one has written the citizen handbook for dealing with complexity but this comes close. Find yourself, seek common ground with others, cite your goals, and leverage it all with compassion. For everyone everywhere who knows they are capable of more and even those who haven't dared yet to dream.

Until reading this book, I confess that I never considered what kind of relationship I have with my city or what kind of relationship I WANT to have. Nest City opened my eyes and helped me to become much more intentional about what kind of citizen I want to be and how I want to engage with my city in building a space that supports everyone in the community. I now move through my city differently, noticing things I never noticed before.

Nest City provides a fresh perspective on urban planning. The book analyses the role of each stakeholder in building our cities and helps the reader gain a new understanding of the complex city-building process. This book is highly recommended for planners and citizens who wish to actively contribute to their neighbourhood and city as a whole.