Peter Self

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

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* 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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1. ^ a b "Obituary: Professor Peter Self". Independent.co.uk. 14 April 1999. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26.
2. ^ 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

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* 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
* Freestone, Robert; Pullan, Nicola (2025). "Peter John Otter Self (1919–1999)". Australian Dictionary of Biography.

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* Obituary ANU Reporter
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Will Self

Fiction|

* Cock and Bull (1992)
* My Idea of Fun (1993)
* Great Apes (1997)
* How the Dead Live (2000)
* Dorian, an Imitation (2002)
* The Book of Dave (2006)
* The Butt (2008)
* Walking to Hollywood (2010)
* Umbrella (2012)
* Shark (2014)
* Phone (2017)

Short fiction|

* The Quantity Theory of Insanity (1991)
* Grey Area (1994)
* License to Hug (1995)
* The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (1996)
* Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys (1998)
* Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe (2004)
* Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes (2008)

Nonfiction|

* Junk Mail (1996)
* Perfidious Man (2000)
* Sore Sites (2000)
* Feeding Frenzy (2001)
* Psychogeography (2007, with illustrations by Ralph Steadman)
* Psycho Too (2009, with illustrations by Ralph Steadman)
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker (2012)
* Will (2019)

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* Deborah Orr (second wife)
* Peter Self (father)
* Jonathan Self (brother)
* Henry Self (grandfather)

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