Abstract: The development of economy and energy resources exploitation make the construction of small towns on Loess Plateau have the high-speed and great-leap-forward progress.The local residents' life contents and life style,the functional structure pattern of the towns,monomer building form are all assimilated by the outside unitary mode.Traditional local-style dwelling houses in which local people depend on for existence for hundreds of yearsthe cave dwelling is abandoned in the urban renewal process gradually because of the influence of some factors.This leads to the fracture of the culture context of urban history in this area,and loss of its own unique characteristics and regional cognition.As a result,people and the environment are not in harmony.It is analyzed the development of cave dwelling,its current situation and all kinds of the existing problems,accordingly,the preliminary strategy is also proposed.