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Temple Ambler's John Collins left his mark on Philadelphia's green spaces
Posted Aug 9, 2011
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Philadelphia Inquirer
John Collins, a landscape architect, urban planner and founding chairman of the landscape architecture and horticulture department at Temple, passed away on Friday, Aug. 5. Among his projects were the Schuylkill River Park; the renovation of the Market East corridor with wider sidewalks, bus shelters, trees and flower boxes; the greenways of Society Hill; and pocket parks throughout Center City. Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron wrote in 2007 of Collins: "He could whip up a charming civic nook with a scrap of empty land and some spare city funds."