A REVIE`W OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URBAN GREENING MORPHOLOGY AND URBAN CLIMATE

Abstract

Green space in built environment has the regulation on climate which contains reducing solar access, cooling, humidification, producing breeze in local area. Therefore, it has a great improvement effect on urban local climate. The investigation discovered that existing research on the relationship between morphology and climate are mainly based on hard elements as buildings, pavements and so on but few based on soft elements as green space or so. This paper tries to bring together the former studies on the relationship between green space and local climate by typology methods. First, focus on individual green Space, dividing existing research according to their research scale. Analyzing how the spatial characteristics of green space affect local climate based on these studies and how to measure and describe the spatial characteristics of green space through the landscape language. Then, extending research to green spaces in built environment on block scale summarizes the classification of green spaces and how they impact on the local climate from former research. Finally, the study summarizes the relationship between urban greening morphology and urban climate.