Constantinople to Istanbul, the city still survives.
With very little exception, cities continue. They survive, war and famine, carpet bombing and fire. Pompeii might be an exception.
Nowadays we see identical forms of disturbances amongst the nations, but only time will tell what type of united revolt will result as at present it is sporadic and disjointed.
Perhaps war, perhaps a quite revolution of economic energy.
Well, if there is no alternative, a quiet revolution of economic energy would be the ideal.
With more thinkers like you at the forefront and this is not meant to be false praise, as you know me.
Your job might be to find genuine people with similar thinking capacities.
The IT infrastructure is already in place and waiting.