"a retrospect" is a correct and usable form of written English.
It typically refers to looking back on something, either in a literal or figurative sense. For example, "At the end of the year, we took a retrospect of our business and were pleasantly surprised by our growth."
"If I take a retrospect of the season I have to be very pleased with the results.
That ignorance of the future is clearly what marks off any participatory fiction as opposed to a retrospect.
In addition, Zhao and Chenxing Li (MSAUD '16), presented their paper – based on their GSAPP Kinne Fellowship – "A Retrospect of Desakota Evolution in Asia," at the 2017 Asian Planning Schools Association conference.
The objective of this review is to make a retrospect and summary about these different kinds of DNA nanostructure-based drug delivery nanosystems and their latest progresses: (1) active targeting; (2) mutidrug co-delivery; (3) construction of stimuli-responsive/intelligent nanosystems.
Their contents tell much of the rest of the story, in a retrospect so fractured and swiveling that the reader puts as much effort into figuring out what Hospital is up to as into following what happens.
Punctuating his narrative at regular intervals with "Cross Sections" on cities in time, Barzun devotes the last of these, on New York, to a retrospect of what he sees as the decadent culture of 1995 from an imagined second Renaissance 300 years in the future.
Loren Sosna of the home furnishings shop Environment 337 is opening a boutique, Retrospect, a few doors down.
A quarter-century ago, James Morris gave Pax Britannica a magnificent retrospect in "Farewell the Trumpets".
Thomas had no reaction, a silence that, in retrospect, said a lot.
In retrospect, a glass bowl of rocks seems an unsuitable product for a mail-order company.
In retrospect, a private room plus "five hundred a year" seems impossibly middle-class.
