Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

About

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 Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias (Coach House Books, 2022), 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 lives in Toronto.

Karon Liu has been a staff food reporter for the Toronto Star since 2015 and aims to link food with culture, history, identity, politics – anything you can imagine. He's also an avid home cook, and his favourite utensil is a pair of wooden chopsticks his grandma used to use.

Books by John Lorinc

Messy Cities

Why We Can't Plan Everything

edited by Dylan Reid, Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo & John Lorinc

No Jews Live Here

by (author) John Lorinc

What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

edited by John Lorinc
introduction by Karon Liu

Dream States

Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias

by (author) John Lorinc

Dream States

Smart Cities and the Pursuit of Utopian Urbanism

by (author) John Lorinc

The Carrying Place

Stories of Indigenous Toronto

abridged by Denise Bolduc & Rebeka Tabobondung
edited by Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere, Brian Wright-McLeod & John Lorinc

House Divided

How the Missing Middle Will Solve Toronto's Affordability Crisis

edited by Alex Bozikovic, Cheryll Case, John Lorinc & Annabel Vaughan

House Divided

edited by Alex Bozikovic, Cheryll Case, John Lorinc & Annabel Vaughan

The Ward Uncovered

The Archaeology of Everyday Life

edited by John Lorinc, Holly Martelle, Michael McClelland & Tatum Taylor

Any Other Way

How Toronto Got Queer

edited by Stephanie Chambers, Jane Farrow, Maureen FitzGerald, Ed Jackson, John Lorinc, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor & Rahim Thawer

Any Other Way

Histories of Queer Toronto

edited by Stephanie Chambers, Jane Farrow, Maureen FitzGerald, Ed Jackson, John Lorinc, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor & Rahim Thawer

Subdivided

City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity

by (author) Jay Pitter & John Lorinc

The Ward

The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood

edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland & Ellen Scheinberg

The Ward

The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood

edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland & Ellen Scheinberg

New City

How The Crisis Of Canada's Cities Is Reshaping Our Nation

by (author) John Lorinc

Cities

A Groundwork Guide

by (author) John Lorinc
series edited by Jane Springer