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.

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. 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.

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    Cities in flood : the problems of urban growth. by Self, Peter

    Published 1957
    Book
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    Los problemas del crecimiento urbano : y su tratamiento actual en Gran Bretaña / by Self, Peter

    Published 1958
    Book
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    Econocrats and the policy process : the politics and philosophy of cost-benefit analysis / by Self, Peter

    Published 1975
    Book