Introduction; Introduction; The Multi-Year Study of Vendors; Chapter 1 Decolonizing the Read ; A Decolonizing Process; The Case for Researcher Authenticity; Reading Asian Streets and Globalized Places in Perspective; Chapter 2 Lodging the Context in Place; Global Realities: Connection to a World System; Everyday Reading of Urban Environments; A Method in Street Reading: Introducing the Place-Node Concept; Historical Roots of the Health and Place Linkage; Chapter 3 Locating Health and Place: Historical and Contemporary Case of Baguio City; Early American Imperialism in the Philippines; Origins of an American Hill Station; Daniel Burnham’s Plan for Baguio City; Factors in the Growth of Baguio City; Chapter 4 Intersecting Spatial-Environmental Perspective with Urban Health; 1. Life-Worlds of Women Vendors: A Global Scan; Transnational Discourse on Gender; Women Street Vendors in the Philippines and the Global South; Women Vendors as Place-Makers; Street Vending in Baguio City; 2. Street Spatial Environments in Downtown Baguio City; Upper Session Road; Middle Session Road; Lower Session Road Area; General Luna Road; Abanao/Harrison Area; 3. Women Vendors in a Spatial-Environmental and Health Context; Urban Place-Nodes in a Health Context; The Personal Accounts and Health Conditions of Eight Women Vendors; Chapter 5 A Retrospective: Reflections on Urban Environments, Women Vendors, and Health; Conclusion