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Maybe this is disgustingly optimistic, but what if, in the future, our metropolis became less centralised, with less of a concentration of desirable services and prestige employment? What if, instead of becoming even bigger wastelands than they already are, the suburbs started to bring in the same services, amenities, and employment opportunities that right now make "closer to the core" so desirable?
Just sayin. I personally think our society has its head too far up its ass for this to play out, but I had to say it.
Well, Los Angles is the closest thing that matches what you described. The city's downtown is not a desirable place to live, although with many jobs. Nobody in LA when buying a house would say "I want to live as close to downtown as possible".
Instead, the giant city developed several sizable centres outside the traditional downtown, Century City, mid-Wilshire, Glendale, Santa Monica, Burbank, Westwood etc each with abundance of urban amenities and employment.