An impression for a city difficult to identify

This book is part of the ICONS collection of the publisher Taschen: small books (about 200 pages format 15 x 20 cm) on architecture and interior design for a city or a particular country.
Warning: with the exception of a small 2-page introduction, the book contains only photographs. No text, except photo captions that are grouped at the end of chapters.
This may confuse some readers but will probably create impressions; give a first impression of a city in perpetual metamorphosis that is not easy to define for a Western ...
If you then wish to explore the subject it will look for other works.

The book has three parts:
- EXTERIORS includes overall photos of the city and buildings details.
- DETAILS INTERIORS and shows us interiors more or less wide shots in each of the 2 parts, so that the difference between the two is not clear ...

I was a little frustrated by the impression of rehashing the same views as angles or different zooms ...

In conclusion: a nice book to quickly scroll to soak up the spirit of a city. It is especially interesting to move from one book to the other of this collection is expanding with many cities and countries in the program ...

Practical details: the book is in English-French-German trilingual, paper and printing are of good quality, soft cover but tidy with matt and gloss lamination.