Firstly, this paper analyzes the basic principles and processes of the spatial pattern changes
of land use in towns and villages, and the result shows that the land resource demands of
urban development and population growth lead to the spatial pattern changes. Secondly,
in order to grip land use changes better, the paper proposes a method for the simulation of
spatial patterns. The simulating method can be divided into two parts: one is a quantitative
forecast by using the Markov model, and the other is simulating the spatial pattern changes
by using the CA model. The above two models construct the simulative model of the
spatial pattern of land use in towns and villages. Finally, selecting Fangshan which is a
district of Beijing as the experimental area, both the quantity and spatial pattern changing
characteristics are investigated through building a changing dataset of land use by using
spatial analysis methods based on the land use data in 2001, 2006 and 2008; CA–Markov
is used to simulate the spatial pattern of land use in Fangshan for 2015