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The Technology of Cities
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From: Dream States
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The Technology of Cities: Part 1 explores how urban development intersects and is shaped by the larger political, social, and technological advancements happening around it. Topics discussed include Detroit, slavery and capitalism, social concuusness, and a brief history of cities.
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John Lorinc
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).
