Abstract: The plain of Fangshan District in Beijing is taken as an area for case study.The present study tends to undertake quantitative measurement of the spatial pattern for non-agricultural land from two aspects.One is the quantitative description of non-agricultural land patches.Three index(fractal dimension,shape index,and circularity) were used to describe spatial graphics of non-agricultural land patches.It is shown that the values of those indexs are always distributed within a limited range by statistics of frequency.The other is quantitative analysis on the spatial distribution of non-agricultural land by variable clumping method(VCM)supported by GIS.