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Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews among a segment of Toronto's inner-city, middle-class population, Caulfield argues that the seeds of gentrification have included patterns of critical social practice and that the 'gentrified' landscape is highly paradoxical.

Focusing on a series of pivotal issues confronting Canadian cities and city-dwellers today, this volume address key themes in urban studies, including the interaction between social relations and urban landscape.

This paper examines some of the fundamental intra- and inter-market relationships using data from Timber Mart-South. Based on comparing the two key parameters of growth rate and volatility of a price series, it is shown that markets in the Southeast vary widely across areas, products, and species. It is also shown that these markets can be characterized by two development stages. Also analyzed are the relationships between: 1. delivered wood and stumpage prices; 2. stumpage prices in the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast; and 3. forest products and stumpage prices. This study has implications for timberland investors, procurement managers, supply modelers, and others involved in the forest sector.

Although timberland is becoming a more popular investment alternative with institutional investors, it is not yet a fully accepted asset class. One reason is because until recently no widely available property-based benchmarks existed to measure the investment performance of timberland, which hampered asset allocation decisions. A second reason is because it was not clear whether timberland returns are persistent over varying time periods. This study used a property-based timberland investment performance benchmark to conduct asset allocations for rolling time periods ranging from 5 to 15 years, between 1981 and 1996. The objectives were to determine whether 1. a positive timberland allocation was included in optimized portfolios and the percentage of the total portfolio allocated to timberland when it entered the solution; and 2. timberland increased returns over portfolios without timberland, and the degree of return enhancement at each level of risk. The results show that in all periods and at most risk levels timberland increased overall returns, often substantially. Timberland's return and risk characteristics were also such that it maintained a persistent allocation in optimized portfolios over all periods. The study suggests that investors who have not considered timberland may find it a desirable addition to institutional portfolios

In contrast to the slight decline in timber assets owned by major companies, timberland held by the entire forest products industry has expanded to over 70 million acres. It also appears that given the existing industry characteristics, holding timberland, as an integral part of the overall operations, is an important option for business success.