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Maggie MacKinnon

Mar 8

New Publication: Biodiverse Residential Development

Urban residential development is expanding globally to accommodate increasing housing demand, greatly impacting biodiversity and human...

Maggie MacKinnon

Feb 23

Early Career Researcher Award at SOAC 2023

Maggie took home the Early Career Researcher Best Presentation Award at the 2023 State of Australasian Cities Conference for her...

Maggie MacKinnon

Feb 23

Living Walls at the 2023 ASA Conference

Maggie ventured to Launceston, Tasmania, for the 2023 Architectural Science Association Conference to present her research on the...

Maggie MacKinnon

Jul 23, 2023

New Publication: Improving Urban Habitat Connectivity

Habitat loss and fragmentation are primary threats to biodiversity in urban areas. Least-cost path analyses are commonly used in ecology...

Maggie MacKinnon

Jan 30, 2023

Our Changing World and Green Walls

Claire Concannon, the host of the Radio New Zealand Our Changing World podcast, visited the site of Maggie MacKinnon’s green wall...

Maggie MacKinnon

Jan 30, 2023

New Publication: Urban Biomimicry for Flood Mitigation

The pervasive hard surfaces and lack of vegetation in many cities decreases the amount of rainfall that gets absorbed in the ground or...

Maggie MacKinnon

Jan 30, 2023

Seeds of Innovation

Merging architecture and conservation biology is the goal of Maggie MacKinnon’s PhD research at Victoria University of Wellington. With...

Maggie MacKinnon

Jan 30, 2023

Keeping Cities Cool

The Forever Project, a magazine dedicated to sustainability and climate change issues, featured Maggie MacKinnon’s research in an article...

Maggie MacKinnon

Jan 30, 2023

New Publication: Regenerative Living Cities

Addressing the interlinked issues of biodiversity loss and climate change necessitates a change in how our urban environments are...

Maggie MacKinnon

Jan 30, 2023

New Publication: Urgent Biophilia

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns triggered significant physical and mental health stress for millions of people around the...

Maggie MacKinnon

Jan 30, 2023

New Publication: Architecture as Habitat

Reconciliation ecology argues for sharing human-dominated habitats, like cities, with other species. The primary way it is currently...