Fugere urbem

Fugere urbem is an expression in Latin that means "to escape the city", created by philosopher Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC 8 BC). This motto was adopted by European Neo-classic or Arcaic literature (1756-1825) to symbolize the poet who moves from the crowded big city to calm rural areas. The style tends to idealize or romanticize the rural and demonize the urban. Defenders of fugere urbem fail to critically analyze how social problems in urban areas are caused by systemic oppressions that must be directly addressed, and instead recur to escapism without recognizing that rural areas also have social problems. This principle relies on binaries such as: nature vs. industry, past vs. future, complexity vs. simplicity, feminine vs. masculine. At the same time, it has the potential to challenge the assumption that urbanization is universally desirable.

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