Peter Self
File:Professor Peter Self, c1960.jpg
Peter John Otter Self (7 June 1919 – 29 March 1999) was an English journalist, academic, planning policy-maker and university teacher of planning.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-professor-peter-self-1087099.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-professor-peter-self-1087099.html |archive-date=2022-05-26 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Professor Peter Self|website=Independent.co.uk |date=14 April 1999|publisher=}}
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.{{cite book | editor-last=Kochan | editor-first=Ben | date=2008 | title=London government 50 years of debate: The contribution of LSE's Greater London Group | publisher= London School of Economics | first=George | last=Jones | chapter=The Greater London Group after 50 years | pages=15–22 | url=http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/63374/1/Kockan_London_Government_50_Years_of_Debate.pdf}} He was also a prominent member of the Town and Country Planning Association. 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, 1949
- Whither Local Government?, 1950
- Cities in Flood: The Problems of Urban Growth, 1960
- The 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, 1972
- Administrative 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
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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 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U181799, accessed 3 Sept 2014]
- {{cite news|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/self-peter-john-otter-900|title=Peter John Otter Self (1919–1999)|first1=Robert|last1=Freestone|last2=Pullan|first2=Nicola|year=2025|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography}}
External links
- [http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Newsletters_and_Journals/ANU_Reporter/_pdf/vol_30_no_04/urban.html Obituary ANU Reporter ]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080720214406/http://www.rootsandleaves.com/family/Burke%27s/PAGET%20of%20Cranmore%20Hall.htm]
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