Riyadh city is in a race against time to accomplish a sustainable urban and development renaissance achieving one of the goals of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 and National Transformation Program 2020 by listing three Saudi cities among the top livable 100 cities in the world and also bringing to its growing residents a life of high quality. The visitor to the city of Riyadh can currently observe that the Saudi capital has turned into a large workshop for the construction of infrastructure projects and other development projects that meet the aspirations, desires and needs of existing residents now and in the future. Yet, the capital, Riyadh faces a number of challenges to accomplish this urban development such as the challenges of culture, climate, resources, sources and their scarcity in addition to air quality challenge. So what is the future that awaits the city of Riyadh, and whether its developmental and urban development plan is a promising one ? --More