Abstract: Remotely sensed mappng information of multi-period of time and methods of landscape pattern analysis were used to study the structure and spatial distribution characterisitcs of two types of land use,built-up areas and new developing areas,during the fast urbanization process in Longhua area,Shenzhen City.The results indicated that from 1988 to 1996,the patch number and average size in the two types of land use increased significantly,but the fragmentation degree decreased. The increase of constructed land use could be divided into two patterns,continued expanding of big residential patches and continuous appearing of new isolated small patches,and most of the new developing area was constructed from 1990 to 1994.Under the impacts of topography and traffic,the built-up areas showed macroscopic spatial distribution with decreasing lacunarity values.Distribution difference of constructed patches was very obvious in small and moderate scales.The new developing patches,affected by the conditions as the built-up areas,were also characteristic of macroscopic heterogeneity,but the expression scale of heterogeneity was larger than the built-up areas.The fast expanding of the constructed land use produced some very negative ecological problems,which should urgently be resolved by adjusting the land use polices.