DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Lots of interesting stuff in the LA Business Journal this week in their section "Who Owns Downtown." Particularly of note is Joel Kotkin's commentary. The LABJ site pulls out this quote:

It would be misleading to suggest that the current addition of perhaps several thousand people into central Los Angeles represents anything more than a blip in what is a dispersed, multi-polar region.

But I think it's more interesting to take a look at his conclusion.

Perhaps it would be best to build on parts of downtown that have grown on their own