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“john lorinc”

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  • Messy Cities

    Why We Can't Plan Everything

    Edited by Dylan Reid, Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo, John Lorinc ...
    Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly managed city or indicators of urban vitality?Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything argues that spontaneity and urban workarounds are not liabilities but essential elements in all thriving ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Ward

    The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood

    Edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg ...
    The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto's first 'priority neighbourhood.'From the 1840s until the Second World War, waves of newcomers who migrated to Toronto – Irish, Jewish, Italian, African American and Chinese, among others – landed in 'The Ward.' Crammed with rundown housing and immigrant-owned businesses, this area, bordered by College and Queen, University and Yonge streets, was ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • No Jews Live Here

    by John Lorinc ...
    WINNER OF THE 2025 CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR MEMOIRNOMINEE FOR THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2025 BOOK AWARDA stolen sign, ‘No Jews Live Here,’ kept John Lorinc’s Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust.From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, journalist John Lorinc unspools four generations of his Hungarian Jewish family's journey through the Holocaust, the 1956 Revolution, and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Dream States

    Smart Cities and the Pursuit of Utopian Urbanism

    by John Lorinc ...
    WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARDIs the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for?The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart cit... ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • The Ward Uncovered

    The Archaeology of Everyday Life

    Edited by John Lorinc, Holly Martelle, Michael McClelland, Tatum Taylor ...
    In early 2015, a team of archaeologists began digging test trenches on a non-descript parking lot next to Toronto City Hall -- a site designated to become a major new court house. What they discovered was the rich buried history of an enclave that was part of The Ward -- that dense, poor, but vibrant 'arrival city' that took shape between the 1840s and the 1950s. Home to waves of immigrants and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • House Divided

    Edited by Alex Bozikovic, Cheryll Case, John Lorinc, Annabel Vaughan ...
    A citizen's guide to making the big city a place where we can afford to live. Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception - in part because of zoning that protects "stable" residential neighborhoods with high property values. House Divided is a citizen's guide for changing the way housing can work in big cities. Using Toronto as a case study, this ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Subdivided

    City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity

    by Jay Pitter, John Lorinc ...
    How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss an opportunity to tout the region’s ethno-cultural neighbourhoods. Yet there’s strong evidence that the GTA is experiencing widening socio ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • 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 ...
    Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals and community networks have transformed Toronto from a place of churches and conservative mores into a city that has consistently led the way in queer activism, not just in Canada but ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

    Edited by John Lorinc ...
    Featured on "The Sunday Magazine" on CBC RadioSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 TASTE CANADA AWARD FOR CULINARY NARRATIVESNearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family legends, and recipes about the world’s favourite lump of carbsIf the world's cuisines share one common food, it might be the dumpling, a dish that can be found on every continent and in every culinary ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Cities

    by John Lorinc, Jane Springer ...
    Series series
    A thought-provoking look at the demands and expectations we place on our growing cities in the twenty-first century. An excellent introduction to the subject for young adults.Today, more people live in cities than in rural areas. The search for better housing, transit, economic opportunity, and security within neighbourhoods forces today's city-dwellers -- in both the developed world and in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Subdivided

    City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity

    by Jay Pitter, John Lorinc ...
    How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss an opportunity to tout the region’s ethno-cultural neighbourhoods. Yet there’s strong evidence that the GTA is experiencing widening socio ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    Dream States

    Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias

    by John Lorinc ...
    Narrated by David Attar ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 57 min

    WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYIs the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for?The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart city software and hardware is now worth hundreds of billions a year.But the ideas and approaches underpinning ... Read more

    $22.99 USD