City

City - Clifford Simak

This 1944 science fiction novel  is a series of episodes that trace world history in which humans boogie off world after making it unfit for humna life with technology. The planet is left to misfit humans slouching to oblivion and evolved talking dogs and their robotic assistants. 

Sure, there is some quaint anti-technology learnings that we'd expect in an SF novel from that era. Some readers may be put off the by the gentle canine pacifism in the last couple of stories. But I think most of it stands up, making it easy to understand why it is considered one in Top 10 science-fiction novels. 

It was a winner of the International Fantasy Award in 1953.