John Lorinc is a Canadian journalist, whose book Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias won the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy in 2022.[1] The book was also a shortlisted finalist for the Donner Prize in the same year.[2]
Lorinc, who writes on urban affairs, politics, business and technology, has been a contributor to The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, the Toronto Star, Maclean's, Toronto Life and Spacing.[3]
He has also been a two-time Toronto Book Award nominee, receiving nods in 2016 as coauthor with Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg and Tatum Taylor of The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood,[4] and in 2017 as coauthor with Jane Farrow, Stephanie Chambers, Maureen FitzGerald, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, Rahim Thawer and Ed Jackson of Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer.[5]
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