The street had been the exclusive realm of wealthy shoppers from west Amman, and shopkeepers were not interested in building a more egalitarian space.
But he does worry about the Maracanã's role as an egalitarian space in a heavily unequal city like Rio. "What could be lost is the nature of the stadium experience as something that cuts across the class segregation of the city as a whole," Carvalho said.
It leaves the current public area in front of the Wall unchanged; the egalitarian space would be separate and not visible from the rest of the Kotel.
Israel's leading daily newspaper, Haaretz, reports that the proposal departs from a previously sanctioned government plan to set aside an egalitarian space at the Wall.
It marked the end of an era when the Sports Arena was the populist, egalitarian space for major events in L.A. "We've got to play this one for the old building," Springsteen announced.
Its project page describes The Toilet Attendant… Now Wash Your Hands as a "performative intervention in one of the washrooms complexes at the fair probably the most egalitarian space within the whole event.
This week brought a new attempt at a resolution: Natan Sharansky (former Member of Knesset and current head of the Jewish Agency) proposed an arrangement in which a separate archeological area of the Wall would be made an egalitarian space where men and women could pray together.
The fact is, museums all over the world have re-invented themselves as egalitarian, inviting spaces.
The agreement for the new egalitarian prayer space, adopted 17 months ago by the government after years of negotiations with Jewish leaders, was supposed to restore harmony at the ancient site, the holiest place where Jews can pray.
A Mancuso party was a '60s dream of peace, love and diversity: multiracial, gay and straight, young and old, well-to-do and down-at-heel, singles and couples, all mingling ecstatically in an egalitarian, commerce-free space.
