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John Lorinc

John Lorinc
John Lorinc is a journalist and editor. He reports on urban affairs, politics, business, technology, and local history for a range of media, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Walrus, Maclean’s, and Spacing, where he is senior editor. John is the author of three books, including The New City (Penguin, 2006), and has coedited four other anthologies for Coach House Books: The Ward (2015), Subdivided (2016), Any Other Way (2017), and The Ward Uncovered (2018). John is the recipient of the 2019/2020 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. He currently lives in Toronto.


How Technology Can Both Improve and Degrade Our Urban Environment

John Lorinc on the Benefits and Pitfalls of “Smart Cities”
August 24, 2022  By John Lorinc
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