Urbanization, as one of the most important indicators to evaluate the development level of city, usually means huge migrant of population from rural area into the urban area, secondary and tertiary industry replace the primary industry as the major economic industry, large land transfer into built-up area. This study aims to explore the temporal-spacial distribution and difference of urbanization and its subsystems before and after Wenchuan earthquake (Richter scale 8.0) in county scale. Based on the connotation of population urbanization, economy urbanization, space urbanization, we could deepen the knowledge of urbanization by comprehensive analysis. In particular, a comprehensive analysis of urbanization development under the context of destructive earthquakes is more conducive to enriching our understanding of the objective rules of urbanization development under extreme circumstances.北九州市立大
