In Poul Anderson's World Without Stars, there is still some business in Niyork but otherwise ivy and lichen grow on tall empty towers.
In James Blish's A Case Of Conscience, the crumbling pinnacles are nearly all empty all of the time because most of the population is underground. In Blish's Cities In Flight, New York, like other cities, flies between stars.
Sf covers every (im)possibility.
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Kaor, Paul!
And in Anderson's Technic series, Earth during the eras of the Polesotechnic League and the Terran became basically a single world girdling city. Albeit large parts of Terra were left unurbanized for both agricultural and recreational purposes.
Ad astra! Sean
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