Homodromes

Formerly roads and highways, urban populations found these space easier to subsist along, giving each family or household the room to grow food and produce goods for trade while the old tarmac still provides a smooth enough surface to allow transport. They live in a sort of anarcho-socialist fashion, each person helping where they can and being helped by their neighbours when they can't. Laziness and greed are much frowned upon but they tend not to punish offenders but to treat them kindly and offer counselling and help to get over whatever difficulty or problem led to the lack of motivation.

There tends be be a gap or buffer space left between these long and thin conurbations and the former urban space they connected due to the presence of warlords in the old towns and cities. This buffer space prevents much raiding and other violence that would likely occur were the two populations in closer proximity.

Periodically there are huge festivals held along the 'dromos' as they are commonly known where people will explore the length of their settlements to find new friends, goods and lovers. Music and arts are a big part of their life as they have found that their subsistence level of consumption and communal sharing leaves them with much spare time.