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  • Essay / Marina Bay Sands, the image of our city - 2280

    Therefore, allowing it to be recognizable as a separate entity. However, this distinctive feature must go beyond its superficial appearance. It had to be able to engage its users in authentic experiences. Experiences that are not distorted and mediated due to a series of arbitrary social constructs, but rather an experiential product resulting from the ability to have a full sense of awareness and attachment to place. Attachment in a way that makes you feel like you belong to a part of the space. Thus allowing easy identification. Therefore, the deeper the sense of place attachment, the stronger the place identity.1 Marina Bay Sands, are you a place of “placelessness”? “We don't want Singapore to be like any other place. another city. We want it to be distinctive, different. And Marina Bay will embody this difference. -Mr. Mah Bow Tan, Minister of National Development Figure 6 Image depicting Marina Bay as a place for possibility