John Lorinc is a

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journalist, whose book ''Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias'' won the

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in 2022. The book was also a shortlisted finalist for the

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in the same year. Lorinc, who writes on urban affairs, politics, business and technology, has been a contributor to ''

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''. He has also been a two-time

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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'', and in 2017 as coauthor with

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, Stephanie Chambers, Maureen FitzGerald, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, Rahim Thawer and Ed Jackson of ''Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer''.

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