ABSTRACT
A retrospective is valuable when studying urban environments. Research involves framing questions to inquire about specific urban phenomena, collecting the data, analyzing the results, and offering a conclusion at the end. The value of retrospectives is that a researcher can examine the archives and discover new patterns that were overlooked during the research phase because attention was focused on the data without much consideration of the context. During the retrospective process, larger themes surfaced that afforded a deeper understanding to health and urban environments. This chapter contains the thoughts that emerged after reflecting on the data, visual images, and published materials. These new contextual points range from the following scalar themes, starting from the broad urban environments, informal economy, and research approach to the individual woman vendor: carrying capacity of streets, future of informality, inclusiveness in the local economy, local governance, warehousing of vendors, public street life, vendor street knowledge, building edges, downtown pocket parks, culture objectification and commodification, transdisciplinarity, human resilience, and women’s agency.
