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This year, GQ called downtown Los Angeles "America’s next great city" and "the cool capital of America"” and The New York Times included downtown on its list of "52 Places to Go in 2014"” Does downtown actually live up to this (admittedly East Coast) hype - and will downtown’s revival is shifting power and influence away from L.A.’s wealthy Westside? Architect Thom Mayne, restaurateur Bill Chait, Los Angeles Times arts & entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa, and UCLA urban planner Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris talk with New York Times national correspondent Jennifer Medina discussed at a Zócalo/UCLA "Thinking L.A”" event at MOCA Grand Avenue.