John Collins, a landscape architect and urban planner
John Collins, whose work touched the city in so many ways over his long career, and whose social conscience led him to teach gardening to prisoners and to involve the jobless in his projects, died Friday of complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 75 and lived in Glenside. READ FULL OBIT
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