Series 636 - James Conner collection

James Conner is a graduate of the University of Sydney and the University of Edinburgh where he worked with the Planning Research Unit while writing his PhD. His major field of research interest has been urban design and planning, and he extended these studies with the appointment in 1968 to the National Capital Development Commission in Canberra. In 1978 he joined the University of Sydney in the Planning Department and later as the Director of the Planning Research Centre. James Conner has travelled widely through Asia and the Pacific and worked with Jennifer Taylor on the 2003 publication, 'The Architecture of Fumihiko Maki'.