Team

Biography

Marita is a Principal Consultant specialising in urban design and transport strategy. At MRCagney, she works on projects that require an understanding of place, and which integrate land use, transport planning and design. Marita often leads projects and plays a key role in management strategy and practices.     

She loves working on projects that will create great places while reducing transport emissions and building a safer future. Marita has a broad skillset that includes technical design across scales, storytelling and communication. Some of the projects Marita has worked on at MRCagney include:

• Urban design and transport strategy around Auckland’s future CRL stations
• Streets for People projects in Gisborne and Uawa
• Research into the relationship between land use and VKT in Auckland
• Developing and facilitating street design training workshops
• Integrated transport strategy for Porirua

With a master's degrees in landscape architecture and creative writing, these days, Marita gets around by ebike and enjoys finding ways to do fun things in Auckland without a car.