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(1926-2018) Scholar, historian. Christiane Collins was born in Hamburg, Germany, and died in West Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Full Name

Christiane Crasemann Collins

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

Unknown

OTHER

Ms. Collins earned her master's degrees in art history and library science from Columbia University.

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OTHER

Ms. Collins was a visiting professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

1926

BIRTH

Christiane Crasemann was born in Hamburg, Germany, on February 14, 1926.

1960

RESIDENCE

Christiane and George Collins lived in an apartment overlooking Morningside Park in Manhattan, New York, during the 1960s. Ms. Collins was instrumental in saving a portion of the park from being destroyed by the building of a gymnasium by Columbia University.

1965

LITWORK

Camillo Sitte And The Birth Of Modern City Planning
Phaidon

Ms. Collins and her husband, George R. Collins, wrote the nonfiction book, "Camillo Sitte And The Birth Of Modern City Planning."

1973

OTHER

Ms. Collins was director of the Adam and Sophie Gimbel Design Library at Parsons School of Design in New York from 1973 to 1983.

2005

LITWORK

Werner Hegemann And The Search For Universal Urbanism
W. W. Norton & Company
0393731561 / 978-0393731569
Nonfiction.

2006

LITWORK

Camillo Sitte: the Birth of Modern City Planning : With a Translation of the 1889 Austrian Edition of His City Planning Accordin
Dover Publications
0486451186 / 978-0486451183
Nonfiction written by Camillo Sitte, George R. Collins, and Christiane Crasemann Collins.

2015

LITWORK

A Storm Foretold: Columbia University And Morningside Heights, 1968
EBook Bakery
1938517482 / 978-1938517488
Memoir.

2018

DEATH

Christiane Collins died at her home in West Falmouth, Massachusetts, on May 4, 2018.

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