Definitely, but invariably when the conversation about office -> housing conversions come up these other cities are never mentioned. I would argue the lessons in those cities are very applicable to SF & NYC, where the conversation has been focused in the past year or so.
There's a massive demographic increase in single person households.
If you're single you have to meet people you can't just retreat into your suburbia castle with your family.
Architecture and city planning takes time to catch up to this new society.
It's possible some cities handled it better than others, but still worth pointing out.