John Lorinc is a Toronto freelance journalist and editor. He writes
about cities, politics, business, climate change, and local history for
various media, including Spacing magazine, the Globe and Mail, the
Toronto Star, The Walrus, Corporate Knights, and, previously, the New York
Times, the Washington Post, and Readers’ Digest. John has won numerous
National Magazine Awards for his journalism and was the 2019–20
Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, which produced a series of ten
articles on smart cities that were the basis of Dream States. He is the
author of three previous books, including The New City (Penguin, 2006),
and has co-edited several Coach House uTOpia anthologies, including
The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood (2015)
and Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer (2017).
