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Landscape changes associated with rapid urbanization are one of the most dramatic forms of land transformation. It is essential to quantify landscape patterns and their changes for urban landscape management policy-making. In the compact city, the growth of building height is the main form of landscape expansion. How to quantify the three-dimensional（3 D） landscape patterns and their changes has become a hot topic in landscape pattern analysis, which is vital to understanding ecological consequences of urbanization and the interaction between architectural landscape and green infrastructure landscape. However, further research is needed to improve 3 D landscape pattern quantitative analysis in comparison to previous studies that mainly focused on urban horizontal expansion. The focus of this paper is the vertical and horizontal urban landscape changes based on high-resolution remote sensing images and building census data by employing 3 D landscape metrics and the landscape connectivity index to quantify the