Urban life is conceived as a mode of civil coexistence, not reducible to spatial extension, demographic density, or territorial limits. What defines the city is the presence of a vecindario—a community of neighbors—who, through free coordination, establish a shared social order grounded in mutual respect, tradition, and institutional subsidiarity. The municipality emerges as the legal form of this pact, tasked with serving, never governing, the lives of individuals. Urban order is thus natural before it is political: it arises from everyday interactions that weave a coherent civic fabric. The author reinterprets Simmel’s blasé attitude not as alienation, but as the discreet courtesy that allows urban liberty to flourish: a way of respecting others' autonomy by refraining from intrusive engagement. The city becomes the privileged setting for freedom lived through norms of urbanity—refined, cultivated behaviors that sustain diverse and overlapping social worlds. Against ideological distortions—both technocratic and activist—the urban condition is defended as a tradition of self-governed dignity. Urbanity, in its classical sense, is not a loss of warmth, but the apex of civilization: a space where individuals coexist without domination, protected by institutions that derive their legitimacy from the people’s will.