ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to adopt the intra-urban structure model to analyze the historic city of Como, Italy and describes the concept of fringe belts as a means of understanding the physical form of urban areas, comprising both the process of outward growth and internal changes. It attempts to address the morphology of tourism by examining the forms, changes, and pressures that have shaped the fringe belts in Como, Italy: a city that faces similar challenges to other destinations in Europe due to a lack of planning and unregulated urbanization. The combination of tourist-historic city is conceived largely to understand the role of tourism within the urban mosaic of forms and functions, as well as to consider the impacts of tourist spending and behaviour on a given city. The chapter provides an overview of the city of Como, and also provides a breakdown of streets, plots, and buildings from a historical perspective.
