eng URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3461 environmental policy town planning This paper describes work that was carried out by CRES, in the frame of the EU-funded Joule project ``PRECis: assessing the potential for renewable energy in cities.'' The main aim of the project is to develop simpli®ed parameters that describe the microclimate and environmental performance of different urban textures. One of the roles of CRES within the team was to describe simpli®ed parameters for the use of vegetation in the urban context, which can eventually be used irrespective of site-speci®c characteristics for different climatic contexts and urban textures. Of particular interest is the effect of vegetation on microclimate: thermal effects, as well as the effect of vegetation on solar and daylight access. These affect the microclimate of the existing open spaces as well as the energy use of the surrounding buildings for heating, cooling and lighting, through shading, evapotranspiration, etc. Simple parametric studies were examined, to identify the thermal impact of vegetation in the urban environment, at the scale of the urban block, particularly as far as the reduction of air temperature is concerned. 8 pp. LOMv1.0 creator LOMv1.0subject matter expert LOMv1.0 publisher LOMv1.0 Project Final Beneficiary LOMv1.0 Project Executing Organisation 2003 Digital Library of the Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning" abstract types Text Vegetation Microclimate Urban block CFD analysis 257145 application/pdf http://repository.edulll.gr/edulll/bitstream/10795/3461/2/3461_1_Vegetation_EB.pdf «Αστικές Αναπλάσεις και Πράσινος Σχεδιασμός» - Υλικό μαθημάτων - Βιοκλιματικός σχεδιασμός αστικών υπαίθριων χώρων – Μαθημα 3 URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3461 LOMv1.0creator 2016-05-27T11:35:19Z LOMv1.0validator 2016-05-27T11:35:19Z LOMv1.0 gre no no Copyright EYD-EPEDBM (Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning")