Abstract
Metroplan, a strategic regional planning strategy formulated by Hong Kong's planners prior to 1997, constellates a multitude of contradictions in planning objectives which, with the benefit of hindsight, are more influential than critics at the time would believe. These contradictions included the conflicts between the market's demand for intensifying development and the government planner's desire to reduce density; elitist bureaucracy; and capital accumulation versus communitarian aspirations under restricted representative democracy. As a result, the core planning objective of ‘thinning out’ urban densities in the older Metroplan areas was never realized. In spite of its limitations, Metroplan survives in more recent plans for Hong Kong in terms of the government's planning apparatus, academic literature, planning methods, and planning vocabulary.
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