Archistories meet Agristories: a series of events organised by the Library of Technological Sciences with the Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Forestry Sciences and Technologies (DAGRI), the Department of Architecture (DIDA), the School of Agriculture and the School of Architecture.
Waterways have always been inextricably linked to the urban centres along their course, influencing and shaping each other in a mutual exchange. On the one hand, they are fast transport routes for people, vehicles and materials and the site of a multitude of activities; on the other hand, they are a caesura between the two banks, an impassable boundary between one part of the city and the other.
It is precisely this duality that the cycle of events The City is mirrored: where the Arno meets Florence, organised by the libraries of Agraria and Architecture, aims to highlight: the need to monitor the Arno, taking care of its banks to ensure its possible uses, and at the same time the urgency of joining the two banks, overcoming the water barrier through strategic places in the city, the bridges, hubs of urban life. The importance of the city's bridges emerged dramatically during the Second World War, when the Nazis, in their hasty retreat from Florence, decided to pull them down on the night between the 3rd and 4th of August 1944: a planned destruction from which only Ponte Vecchio was saved. Their reconstruction is therefore set as an undeniable goal not only of the city, but of the entire nation.
The events are part of the public engagement activities of the University Library System and are addressed to the city community with a view to contributing to the knowledge of the history of the city and its river.