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“We have a political decision-making framework that reverts to privileging people who are driving at the expense of people who walking”
- by John LorincJohn Lorinc Updated 22:38, Oct. 16, 2019 | Published 14:10, Oct. 20, 2015This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current.
John Lorinc is a Toronto-based journalist and editor and the author of Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias, published this year.
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