Abstract: Urban community is one shape of human kind settlements. Its growth represents specific response to economic, demographic and environmental conditions. Rapid urbanization and industrialization have resulted in sharp land cover changes due to grow of built up area and dismiss of green region and other land uses. The urban development study needs certain methodology, technique and model in order to follow and evaluate the variation of such phenomenon and its side effect towards mankind, land, nature and social and economic activities. The proper tools of data survey of natural and artificial features above earth surface are remote sensing, aerial photography and maps. The most suitable technique of analysis and represent complicated features is geographic information system, where various components are shown layer by layer. The present study was carried out for madaba city in Jordan including built up and surround areas using topographic maps, aerial photographs and satellite images as a collecting, analyze and output require data among half century and make it a guide for future of other cities in the country or region through its technical aspects, deep analysis and precise results.