Simon Guy will be giving an overview of Catalyst - the book published earlier in 2015 relating to the Jetty Project – at a Centre for Mobilities (CeMoRe) seminar at Lancaster University on 20th October. Please click here for more details.
Simon Guy will also draw on the research experiences from the Jetty Project at the forthcoming international conference, ‘The City and the Pragmatic Turn’, to be held at Copenhagen University on November 5th and 6th 2015. Please click here for more details.
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