Coral Gables Virtual History

Title:	Coral Gables Virtual History.	16 views
Type of Resource:	mixed material
Summary:	Florida International University (FIU) has partnered with the City of Coral Gables to create a geospatiallyenabled Virtual Historic City. With this tool, users may navigate to any point in the city at a selected time period (e.g. the Biltmore Hotel from the 1920s to 1940s), and experience the city as it was, through a wide variety of cultural artifacts and textual materials. A virtual walking tour of Coral Gables was also created, which includes an audio narration and 3D simulations providing the façade of historic buildings and landscape. The target audience includes students, educators, historians, public policy administrators, business people, entrepreneurs, architects, sociologists, environmental analysts, urban Inventory of Digital Libraries 37 planners, cultural heritage tourism, and the general public. The digital archive hosts digitized and rectified maps, architectural drawings, property parcels, and aerial photographs. Over 8,000 historical documents, photographs, oral histories, and maps have been spatially registered to their relevant locations and time.
Identifier:	7905 (IID)
Note(s):	Hosting Institution: FIU
Links:	http://maps.fiu.edu/cgm/
Host Institution:	FLVC

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