The urban land management process has become one of the most important pillars for the urban sustainable development, so a lot of researches have concerned with studying its components, and most important impediments which affect the efficiency of the outputs of that process. Some of the cities in the Arab Republic of Egypt-including Assiut Citysuffer from urban land management shortage problems, which cause a lot of physical problems impeding the urban sustainable development in those cities, and so those problems were the focus of many planning studies. The paper aims to study the components of the urban land management, and the potentials to apply them in Assiut City, in order to alleviate the urban land management shortage problems. The paper begins with browsing of the physical problems in Assiut City caused from the urban land management shortage, then the concept and the components of the urban land management process, and so the city need for an urban land management system, and the potentials to apply its components in that city, and so reaching to the paper recommendations, which can help in supporting those potentials, to go forward towards the urban sustainable development in Assiut City.