Dylan Reid

John Lorinc is a journalist and editor. He writes regularly about cities, climate, and planning for a range of media, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Corporate Knights, Walrus, and Spacing Magazine, where he is senior editor. John is the author of four previous books, including The New City (Penguin, 2006), and Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias (Coach House Books, 2022), which won the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy and the Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award. He has also contributed to, co-edited, or project managed every volume of Coach House’s uTOpia series, including The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Nieghbourhood and House Divided: How the Missing Middle Can Solve Toronto’s Affordability Crisis. John lives with his wife, Victoria Foote, and their labrador retriever, Nora, in Toronto. They have two sons, Jacob and Sammy. Away from his laptop, John is an enthusiastic but untalented hockey player and once (but never again) co-produced a musical cabaret about local history.