Abstract: Road as one of the most important human disturbing factors has remarkable impacton the land use changes. Shenzhen City was taken for a case study, using the buffer analysis and the calculation of the urbanization effect index (UEI) to study the impacts of road pattern on land uses in rapidly urbanizing region, based on the analysis of road ranks and density. It was found that road pattern had remarkable impacts on land uses, and the impact extensions were different, which indicated that the main road was 1 200 m and subordinate road was 800 m. In the area of high road density it was 600 m, the area of mid density was 1 200 m, and the low-density zone was 1 000 m. The dominant impact of main roadswas the orchard, while the impact of subordinate roads was the industrial land.In the area of high road density, the main impact on land uses was the higher proportion of the construction land, while in the area of mid road density was the industrial land, and in the area of low road density was the most of the forestry land. About 80% of the whole city was impacted by roads, and the non-effectzones were rare in Shenzhen, which could only be found in some mountainous area. In the end, the relations between the ranks and density of roads were discussed.