ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to develop a descriptive profile of citizen perception of the environment and attitudes to planning questions and issues. It assesses the general awareness of citizens according to their personal characteristics as indexed by sex, duration of residence in the city, levels of income and education, and nature of occupation. The chapter examines the nature and degree of difference in attitudes concerning the image of, and recommendations regarding, the metropolitan environment, in accordance with the above attributes. Later, in 1970, the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Agency was set up to broaden the scope of planning to include a region known as "Greater Calcutta" or the "Calcutta Metropolitan District." In a multicultural, cosmopolitan city such as Calcutta, with widely diversified strata of citizens and steadily worsening environmental conditions, a careful scrutiny of planning strategies is even more imperative. In the rapidly growing urban places of third-world countries such as India, the growing unrest and discontent of the citizens.
