Abstract: The small areal size of Hong Kong has forced it to pursue at increasing the rate of utilisation of its przcious land. Indeed the which, up.to the 1950s, were thus restricted to the south of the Boundary Street with reclamation as tlic cizief source of nesv land supply. ThP enormous growth of population,number of factories and its expanding economy since the 1960s eventually have led to the construction of new towns in the New Territories on the one hand and abandonment of farmland on the other. The massive construction of public housing with improving designs, however, does not prevent a significant proportion of population from living in mired uses, high density, high rental and highly priced private housing, which also constitutes a subject of criticisms on the Hong Kong land policy.