The Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Engineer Abdullatif bin Abdulmalik Al-Sheikh, called for reformulating the duties of the agencies concerned with managing cities, defining their scope and areas, and redefining the services needed by city residents, in light of the great cultural transformation and comprehensive technical development, to achieve a qualitative shift in urban planning concepts and strategies to be more comprehensive in their objectives, more close and specific to the conditions of the cities for which they are developed, more practical in the transition between reality and the planned objectives, and more susceptible to community participation and economic integration.

Al Al-Sheikh revealed several programs to revise city planning, including the «Future of Saudi Cities» programs in cooperation with the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat). Al-Sheikh revealed multiple programs to reconsider city planning, including the "Future of Saudi Cities" programs in cooperation with the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) to make a qualitative shift in the planning of the Kingdom's cities and make them more attractive for living, working and settling.

Al-Sheikh pointed out that the Urban Forum aims to adopt a broad dialogue with the participation of all relevant parties on urban planning and management and its role in the development of cities to meet the challenges of development and absorb the cultural and economic changes of societies at a time when the world considers this of great importance.