Copal Publishing Group

System's approach (SA) is a holistic approach of understanding. The approach streamlines how small parts or things or events influence one another within a sequence of events, which constitutes of...

During my 38 years of service in the IAS and 10 years of active post-retirement life, I, like many other colleagues, have remained concerned about how governance is getting delivered at the ground...

Built, Unbuilt, and Imagined Sydney presents the expanded field of architecture. It aims to show that the practice of architecture exceeds the work legally defensible under the title of the architect...

The book decodes the influences of Hindu temple architecture on the Khmer temple architecture of Cambodia with a method to study temple architecture holistically. There is a systematic transmission...

The book uses the experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 to realise community relocation with human rights and ethics around the world.This book has been written with an emphasis on the...

Considering its multi-faceted role and importance, cities need to be made more sustainable and livable in order to minimize the rapidly growing challenges and conflicts in environment and ecology...

Delhi is a fast growing megalopolis, which also contributes to the growth of the National Capital Region (NCR). The urban planning approach has gone through quite some change in India. The book is a...

The book Elysian: Churches of Travancore covers a detailed architectural study of four important churches of Southern Kerala, India. Church architecture is a rich and varied field that reflects the...

The book aims to impart technical understanding of life and fire safety to aid planning and design of building projects. It emphasized upon the importance of integrating fire safety considerations...

Urban planning is as broad as the scope of urban government, which is closest to the people. It is an essential pre-requisite to the successful performance of duties of urban government, because it...

Geographic Information System for Smart Cities is the first book that advocates that smart cities can be planned, managed and developed using GIS.The book is a combined effort of 23 international...

Fringe areas of the metropolitan cities have become the most crucial sites of India's hi-tech services-driven new urban economy-as well as its complexities and contradictions. With global investments...

Every step in human life is decided by thoughts, which have immense potential to create or change our beliefs, habits and attitude. Sexual thought emerges during puberty and intensifies with growing...

The book is an effort to evolve and present a humane approach for urban planning practices in India. The planning approach followed in India, mostly, ignores the cultural peculiarities, habits,...

With the number of cities and towns going up to about 8,000 now, both the JnNURM and the 12th Five year Plan document focusing on India?s urban rejuvenation, and with the current focus on developing...

The book entitled Laboratory Manual for Principles of Animal and Population Genetics is the culmination of the vast experience of offering the courses on Principles of Animal Genetics and Population...

Landscape Architecture : History, Ecology and PatternsAuthor: Minakshi Jain, I. P. Singh (Associate professor of architecture)Publisher: Copal Publishing GroupPublication Date: Apr 27, 2017Number of...

Chandigarh and Gandhinagar were planned Indian cities which were a result of a political necessity. Chandigarh was designed on modern planning principles whereas the planning of Gandhinagar showed...

The book focuses on the urban governance in the context of pre and post 74th Constitutional Amendment Act in the state of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. The level of decentralized governance is being...

The fertile land and abundant wealth of Bengal attracted many conquerors who left their mark on its timeline; some only plundered while others became rulers. Their footprints, similar to the alluvial...

Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar's resting place is located in Sikandarah (British synonyms to Sikandra) in the outskirts of Agra, Uttar Pradesh. This handsome monument displays a coherent amalgamation of...

There has been a historical discord over curriculum and teaching practices for structures courses in architectural education, as students are disinterested and not able to integrate learnings from...

The City Observed by Pallavi Shrivastava reads like dispatches from a battlefront by a seasoned war correspondent. Each chapter is a stimulating vignette of some memorable place, or recently...

Urban wildlife management is a town planning subject. It is logical and important to relate the animal and human conflict seen all over the world, as a phenomenon which is applicable to all types of...

Walking has always remained the most intrinsic and most prevalent of all human mobility means. The present day cities seem to have lost the pedestrian culture in the maze of rapidly escalating...

In this beautifully illustrated book, Author shares the fruits of more than a quarter of a century of careful observation of traditional knowledge and techniques applied to urban settlements and...