OA-cities may survive the coming anarchy and could preserve THE LIGHT OF CIVILISATION, in much the same way as Monasteries in the last dark age.  

By 2050, possibly sooner, Western civilisation will have succumbed to all the insidious and nefarious forces which will by then have been poisoning its roots for 80 years or more. Before the final collapse, sprawling, borderless OB-cities like Chicago, New York, London, and Paris will have descended into the anarchic chaos of Mogadishu or Kabul, with murderous home invasions and terrorist bombings against pubs and restaurants, and other places of entertainment, happening as daily events. 

 

 

The fortunate few living in the safety of OA-cities will be much better positioned to ride out the turmoil, although they will often have to defend their cities against mob attacks.  

SELF-SUFFICIENCY and DEFENSIBILITY will enable OA-cities to survive the coming anarchy and thus could preserve THE LIGHT OF CIVILISATION through the coming dark age, in much the same way as Monasteries did in the last dark age.  

HollyWEIRD - devious distorters

Sci-Fi movies routinely depict 3D Cities as dystopian nightmarish places, the opposite of the likely reality.  Nobody should be surprised since Hollyweird – foremost amongst the nefarious forces mentioned above – has long been engaged in turning reality on its head – maliciously distorting every situation (especially history and/or where race is involved) into the exact opposite of the truth.  ANYWAY, WHY WOULD ANYONE BELIEVE STORY-TELLERS..?

If anywhere is to become dystopian hell-holes in the future, it will be conventional 2D sprawling OB-cities.  Some inner-cities of the US – like Detroit and Baltimore – already are..!