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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 , 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
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
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