The biennial International Land Use Symposium (ILUS) is an interdisciplinary conference with an objective to advance the understanding of built-up areas and to develop new ideas for sustainable urbanization. ILUS brings together leading international academics and interested attendees for presentation, discussion, and collaborative networking in the fields of spatial sciences, environmental studies, geography, cartography, GIScience, urban planning, architecture, which relate to investigations of settlements and infrastructure. Under the umbrella of the thematic area, "Urban Analytics for Transforming Cities and Regions", ILUS 2023 is dedicated to give answers to the question how interdisciplinary concepts in spatial analysis and data modelling can contribute and support sustainable urban and regional development. To this end, the symposium covers the major topics: Urban Dynamics, Resilient urban and regional systems, Open data in planning and urban management, and Big Data Analytics and Land Use. The symposium includes original contributions from researchers with an objective to advance the knowledge on urban dynamics towards sustainability in the Global South and Global North.