ABOUT
Florida International University (FIU) has partnered with the City of Coral Gables to create a geospatially-enabled 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 facade of historic buildings and landscape.
The target audience includes students, educators, historians, public policy administrators, business people, entrepreneurs, architects, sociologists, environmental analysts, urban planners, cultural heritage tourism, and the general public.
The digital archive hosts digitized and rectified maps, architectural drawings, property parcels, and aerial photographs. Currently, over 10,000 historical documents, photographs, oral histories, and maps have been spatially registered to their relevant locations and time.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
FIU would like users to make productive use of materials found on this site, particularly for non-profit educational purposes.
Licensing and Copyright
Some of the resources you find in the Coral Gables digital collection may be copyright protected. You may use all or part of a copyrighted work only if you have the copyright owner's permission or your use falls under a legal exemption. It is the user’s responsibility to ensure their use does not violate any third party’s rights. Check the documents you are viewing for appropriate statements indicating copyright ownership and what the person or entity holding those rights is asserting.
Fair Use Materials on this site may be used for research, instruction, and private study under the provisions of Fair Use. Fair Use is a provision of United States Copyright Law (United States Code, Title 17, section 107) which allows limited use of copyrighted materials under certain conditions. Factors to be considered whether a particular use falls under Fair Use include: - The purpose or character of the use; - The nature of the copyrighted work; - The amount and substantiality of the work being used; - The effect of the use on the market for and value of the original. Under Fair Use you may view, print, photocopy, and download images from this site without prior permission, provided that you provide proper attribution of the source on all copies. There are several good sources of information about copyright and Fair Use on the web.
Attribution Users must cite the author/artist, if applicable, and source of this material as they would material from any printed work; the citation must include the name of the university and the URL of the image from the website.
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For more information about copyright and FIU policy, visit https://library.fiu.edu/copyright/faqs
