" The rationalism that culminated in Descartes accompanied the reversal that replaced the primacy of the peasantry with the priority of urban life. Although the peasantry didn’t see it as such. However, during this period, the image of the city came into being. The city had writing; it had secrets and powers, and clarified the opposition between urbanity (cultured) and rusticity (naive and brutal). "

― Henri Lefebvre , The Urban Revolution