Lorinc won the inaugural Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award for his exploration of so-called smart cities
Toronto journalist John Lorinc has won a lucrative new U.S. prize for his book into the perils and possibilities of so-called smart cities.announced Wednesday, citedfor covering “pressing, timely geopolitical issues” and preparing people for “the impact of technology on the city and residents.”
“We should be asking probing questions about whether they’re necessary, whether they solve the problems they’re supposed and whether they intrude on our privacy,” he said in an interview.Open this photo in gallery:The winning book grew out of a Toronto controversy over the future of a waterfront property.
Lorinc covers in a broad sweep the thousands of years of urban development that brought us to this point. He offers detail on key inventions such as reinforced concrete, lighting and clean water infrastructure that have made dense city life possible. And he explores some of the many newer ideas that fall under the smart-city label.Smart cities is an umbrella term suggesting different things to different people.
Lorinc, who wrote in the book that there is “more than a little hubris” in the idea that the messy complexity of city life can be mastered, also says smart-city technologies aren’t inherently bad.
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