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I can imagine cities (in the meaning of concentrations of human settlement) surviving in some form in the epoch you describe.

Free energy would render importation of fossil energy obsolete and some sort of "urban ag" could take advantage of the new technologies available obviating the need for food importation.

The concentration of human beings has it advantages at times: culturally, scientifically, ceremonially, etc.

Perhaps these conglomerations would exist on a contingent and temporary basis. Rather like Chaco in current day New Mexico existed as a temporary gathering space for trade and commerce and, as far as I know, ceremonial purposes and had small human permanent populations for administrative purposes.

I admit much of this is speculative but fertile ground for imaginings and re-definitions.

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