Coral Gables (sometimes referred to as The Gables) is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, southwest of Miami, Florida, in the United States. The city is best known globally as the home of the University of Miami.

The population was 42,249 at the 2000 census. According to U.S Census estimates in 2005, the city had a population of 42,871. >http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2005-04-12.csv

History
Coral Gables was one of the first new town, and prefigured the development of the gated community and the homeowners association. It is notorious for its aesthetic regulations. The city was developed by George...

Coral Gables (sometimes referred to as The Gables) is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, southwest of Miami, Florida, in the United States. The city is best known globally as the home of the University of Miami.

The population was 42,249 at the 2000 census. According to U.S Census estimates in 2005, the city had a population of 42,871. >http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2005-04-12.csv

History
Coral Gables was one of the first new town, and prefigured the development of the gated community and the homeowners association. It is notorious for its aesthetic regulations. The city was developed by George Merrick during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The city's architecture is almost entirely Mediterranean Revival Style architecture. By 1926, the city covered, had netted $150 million in sales with over $100 million spent on development.

Merrick designed the downtown commercial district to be only four blocks wide and more than two miles (3 km) long. The main artery bisected the business district. Merrick could boast that every business in Coral Gables was less than a two-block walk. The city used to have an old electric Tram which was replaced by the popularity of modern automobiles, but now a new free circulator Tourist trolley system, initiated in November, 2003, runs down Ponce de Le??n Boulevard.

In 1925, roughly simultaneous to the founding of Coral Gables, the city was selected as the home to the University of Miami, which was constructed that year on of land just west of U.S. Route 1 in Florida, approximately two miles south of downtown Coral Gables.