Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever
15 min
It was at once the world's richest and wickedest city. However, over 400 years ago, an earthquake tore it apart. "In a few seismic seconds, as the watch fell from a pocket and stopped, the fortunes of Port Royal changed for ever. Ideas for a deliberately different kind of town took hold: a gridiron plan designed to suit the white, colonial, slave-trading and slave-holding elite – and to underscore its control of people and space. This would be the king's town, Kingston." Emily Mann reveals the history of Kingston, Jamaica for the Guardian.