Collaborative Planning in an Undemocratic Setting: What Can We Learn from a Short-Lived Experiment in Hong Kong?

Mee Kam Ng

Planning Theory & Practice, 2025, vol. 26, issue 2, 223-232

Abstract: At the turn of the millennium, Hong Kong had a collaborative planning experiment inspired by Healey’s communicative planning approach. The executive-led government, facing challenges from the Asian financial crisis and a collapsed property market, had to halt harbour reclamation following a court ruling. Subsequently, the government agreed to a civil society initiative to establish a tripartite partnership involving public, private and civil society sectors to collaboratively re-design the Victoria Harbourfront. The experiment was short-lived because the political landscape quickly reinforced the dominant undemocratic governance culture. Nevertheless, it demonstrated that transformative changes are still possible in a top-down mode of governance.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2025.2463240

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