Introduction : political mobilization in the urban landscape -- Port in a storm : the Boston waterfront as contested space, 1747-74 -- Orderly and disorderly mobilization in the taverns of New York City -- "And yet there is room" : the religious landscape of Newport -- Changing our habitation : the revolutionary movement in Charleston's domestic spaces -- Philadelphia politics, in and out of doors, 1742-76 -- The forgotten city -- Appendices.