Abstract:Various approaches can be taken to study land use/cover change caused primarily by urbanization. In this paper, landscape pattern analysis is chosen to study the land use/cover change in Shenzhen City where urbanization is rapidly developing. Indices of fragmentation, Shannon Weaver diversity and congregation were chosen to illustrate the land cover pattern change at three levels from the patch level, landscape level to the region level. The change of land cover patterns at the region level was first analyz...