Whether there is a place to the small cities during a post-industrial era?

Industrialization led not only to unprecedented in the history to the economic growth or wealth accumulation, but also to high-quality changes in the vital environment of the majority of people. Villages became empty and fell into decay, and the cities of the most different sizes came to replacement with it: not only megalopolises, but small and average settlements (it is possible to remember monotowns to the USSR or "a rusty belt" to United States of America). Certainly, mass migration did not avoid problems. The cities did not manage to provide new inhabitants with infrastructure or the thought-over building so worldwide there were slums, favely or spontaneous suburbs...