Abstract: Based on coupling coordination characteristics of intensive urban land use and urbanization， coupling coordination degree model and relative development degree evaluation model were built. Finally， with the aid of ArcGIS10 and SPSS21，analysis on time and space scales between the coupling coordination degree model and relative development degree of 16 cities in Xinjiang in 2005 and 2012 were carried out. The results showed that: （1）Seven years later， the parameter of population urbanization， economy urbanization， society urbanization and space urbanization were increasing with the time， the level of urbanization was increasing step by step. However, there were great differences in the levels of intensive urban land use in many cities of Xinjiang， the levels of intensive urban land use in Urumqi and Karamay were higher than other cities and showed rising trend; the second kind of cities， such as Shihezi， Hami and Aletai， improved greater; the third kind of cities， such as Atushi， Kashi， Hetian， the levels were not high， but they were slightly increasing. （2） Interaction and mutual promotion of intensive urban land use and urbanization were not synchronously developing， the coupling coordination degree between intensive urban land use and urbanization was a dynamic change， the coupling relationship become gradually deteriorated over time.（3） It was found that the coupling relationship between intensive urban land use and urbanization does not match each other， showing remarkable regionality， and there was a relation of spatial response up on the development of economic.

Key words: intensive urban land use, urbanization, coupling coordination, Xinjiang