{{Short description|English journalist, academic and planning policy-maker (1919-1999)}} '''Peter John Otter Self''' (7 June 1919 – 29 March 1999) was an English journalist, academic,
{{Infobox academic | name = {{PAGENAME}} | image = Professor Peter Self, c1960.jpg | birth_date = 7 June 1919 | birth_place = Brighton, England | death_date = 29 March 1999 | death_place = Canberra, Australia | occupation = Professor of Public Administration; Journalist | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Diana Mary Blizard Pitt |1950|1957|reason=divorced}} * {{marriage|Elaine Adams |1959|1981|reason=divorced}} }} | children = Will Self; Jonathan Self | education = Lancing College | alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford, BA | discipline = Town planning | notable_works = Planning the Urban Region (1982) }}
planning policy-maker and university teacher of planning.<ref name="ind-obit">{{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=}}</ref>
== Early life == 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.<ref name="glg-50">{{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=https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/63374/}}</ref> He was also a prominent member of the Town and Country Planning Association.<ref name="ind-obit" /> He then became Professor of Urban Research at the Australian National University.
== Personal life == He was the father of Jonathan Self and Will Self.
== Death == He died in Canberra on 29 March 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Obituary - Peter John Otter Self - Obituaries Australia |url=https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/self-peter-john-otter-900 |access-date=2026-05-17 |website=oa.anu.edu.au}}</ref>thumb|Peter Self, c. 1960 ==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== {{Reflist}}
==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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