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Abstract
Hong Kong's urban renewal schemes, public housing projects, and new towns development are evidence of an implicit population policy which aims at deconcentrating urban population to solve the problems of overcrowding and uneven population distribution. This paper uses the techniques of the Lorenz curve, the Gini coefficient, and a linear model relating population change to population density at the census district level in Hong Kong to analyze the trend in population concentration. The analyses show that these population programs are effective for spreading population from the old core to the new periphery and greatly affect small local area population change in Hong Kong.