Rejeet Mathews

Program Director - Urban Development

Bio

Rejeet Mathews is Program Director, Urban Development at WRI India, where she has been associated for almost 9 years. Her current work is around spatio-economic planning, the integration of land use and transport, city-region master planning, affordable housing, alternative mechanisms to acquire, plan and service land, revision of town and country planning acts and capacity building. She has provided technical inputs to various committees, reports and policies anchored by city, state and national governments in India.

Rejeet has, prior to WRI worked with the consulting firm Groupe SCE India (now EGIS Geo Plan), and CEPT’s Research and Development Unit (as a GATE Scholar and intern). She has held key responsibilities on projects that range in scale from metropolitan region plans, city master plans, detailed project reports, feasibility studies, urban design, micro level plans and architecture. She has worked largely in India with further on-ground project experience in countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, France and Libya.

Key projects worked on include the Development Plan for Greater Mumbai, the Bangalore Metropolitan Region Revised Structure Plan, the Master Plan for Bhiwadi, Tapookara and Khuskhera Complex; the Revised Master Plan for Bangalore 2015, User Needs Assessment for the Urban Development Authority of Sri Lanka and City Development Plan, Comprehensive Mobility Plan, Heritage Plans and Urban Renewal Plans under JNNURM.

She has a bachelor’s in Architecture from M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore and a master’s in Urban Design from CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

She has lived in many Indian cities including Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Mumbai and currently resides in the National Capital Region (of Delhi) with her husband and son.

Blogs

Measuring Urbanization: Why India Needs to Re-think its Methodology
by Sudeshna Chatterjee, Raj Bhagat Palanichamy, Rejeet Mathews and Shahena Khan - August 08, 2023
This blog delves into the definition and measure of ‘urban’ in India to discuss the methodological gaps in existing definitions. It also looks at the advantages and limitations of a global method endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission for the delineation of urban, peri-urban and rural areas.

Earlier this year, India surpassed China to become the most populous country in the
Reimagining Mumbai
by Rejeet Mathews - June 25, 2015
How can Mumbai become a Smart City that the nation is proud of? The recently published Draft Development Plan (DP) for Mumbai was so poorly received by various stakeholders that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis scrapped it on the 21st of April, 2015. It has to be reworked in just four months – an opportunity to bring in much needed change in the planning discourse.

Since the DP
Making Mumbai’s Development Plan 2034 Pragmatic and Implementable
by Rejeet Mathews - March 16, 2015
A frontrunner in bringing in innovative mechanisms such as Accommodation Reservation (AR) and Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) in 1991, the expectations from the Mumbai Development Plan are very high. The Greater Mumbai Draft Development

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Measuring Urbanization: Why India Needs to Re-think its Methodology

Reimagining Mumbai

Making Mumbai’s Development Plan 2034 Pragmatic and Implementable

Morphology of Delhi National Capital Region’s Economic Geography and its Implications for Planning

State-led Alternative Mechanisms to Acquire, Plan, and Service Land For Urbanisation in India

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