MOLLY ROBINSON

Molly O’Neill Robinson, AICP is an urban designer and planner, a career-line instructor at the University of Utah's College of Architecture and Planning, and founder of MOR Design & Planning. With over nine years at the helm of Salt Lake City’s urban design initiatives, Molly has been instrumental in shaping the city's landscape. She led the comprehensive Downtown Plan, a pivotal project that reframed public engagement to include previously marginalized communities, supported a jobs-housing balance, and established design and development policy to grow downtown into a vibrant, livable neighborhood.

Molly's career includes work at OLIN in Philadelphia and Sasaki in Boston, where she contributed to teams that garnered numerous accolades for their transformative urban design projects. She holds a Master of Science in Planning from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

As an educator and practitioner, Molly is committed to elevating urban design consciousness and advocating for design details that foster memorable and livable neighborhoods. Her work emphasizes sustainable and inclusive design principles, aiming to create spaces that cater to the needs of all community members.