It represents characteristics, personality traits, and viewpoints associated with cities and urban areas.
The word is related to the Latin urbanitas with connotations of refinement and elegance, the opposite of rusticus, associated with the countryside.
[1] In Latin the word referred originally to the view of the world from ancient Rome.
In language, urbanity still connotes a smooth and literate style, free of barbarisms and other infelicities.
In antiquity, schools of rhetoric flourished only in the atmosphere of large cities, to which privileged students flocked from smaller cities in order to gain polish.