Books in the Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies series

The Real Fake explores how the users of Thames Town-an English-like village built in Songjiang New Town near Shanghai-negotiate the notion of authenticity through their everyday social and spatial practices. Piazzoni argues that authenticity underlies the social and physical production of space through both top-down and bottom-up dynamics.

This book examines how the city peoples of New York and Paris interpreted their urban surroundings during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. At the center of this examination are the literary, material, political, and visual forms which afforded contemporaries new ways of "reading" the modern metropolis.