Urban dust constitutes an important problem in urban environmental science.A review is given in this paper on the advances in the study of urban dust in various aspects both in China and abroad, such as physicochemical characteristics,spatialtemporal distribution,source,migration and transformation,bioeffect and environmental quality assessment.The future development prospects are also pointed out.It is an urgent task to study the source of urban dust at different spatial scales,the mechanism of migration and transformation and the environmental quality assessment.