Peter Self, c. 1960 Peter John Otter Self (7 June 1919 – 29 March 1999) was an English journalist, academic, planning policy-maker and university teacher of planning.[1]
Self was born in Brighton , to Audrey (Otter) and Henry Self , a civil servant. Self was educated at Lancing College and Balliol College , Oxford , where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. In the Second World War , he was a conscientious objector , working on a farm. In his academic career, he became Professor of Public Administration at the London School of Economics , where he was a prominent member and leader of its Greater London Group research centre.[2] He was also a prominent member of the Town and Country Planning Association .[1] He then became Professor of Urban Research at the Australian National University . He died in Canberra on 29 March 1999.
He was the father of Jonathan Self and Will Self .
Bibliography Regionalism , 1949Whither Local Government? , 1950Cities in Flood: The Problems of Urban Growth , 1960The State and the Farmer , 1962 ISBN 0043380328 Metropolitan Planning: Planning System of Greater London , 1971 ISBN 0817300902 Planning the Urban Region: A Comparative Study of Policies and Organizations , 1982 ISBN 0043520995 New Towns: The British Experience , 1972Administrative Theories and Politics: An Enquiry into the Structure and Processes of Modern Government , 1972 ISBN 0043510434 Econocrats and the Policy Process: Politics and Philosophy of Cost-benefit Analysis , 1976 ISBN 0333180968 Administrative Theories and Politics: An Enquiry into the Structure and Processes of Modern Government , 1977 ISBN 0043510531 Political Theories of Modern Government - Its role and reform , Unwin Hyman, London, 1985 ISBN 0-04-320174-1 Government by the Market? The Politics of Public Choice , 1993 ISBN 0333569725 Rolling Back the Market , 1999 ISBN 0312226519
References ^ a b "Obituary: Professor Peter Self" . Independent.co.uk . 14 April 1999. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26.^ Jones, George (2008). "The Greater London Group after 50 years". In Kochan, Ben (ed.). London government 50 years of debate: The contribution of LSE's Greater London Group (PDF) . London School of Economics. pp. 15–22.
Further reading SELF, Prof. Peter John Otter’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 3 Sept 2014
External links Obituary ANU Reporter [1]