“…Urban greening can mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) effect and improve thermal comfort by moderating micro-climatic conditions (Avissar, 1996;McPherson, 1992;Park et al, 2012;ShashuaBar et al, 2009;Taha, 1997) and provide shading (Dimoudi and Nikolopoulou, 2003;Ali-Toudert and Mayer, 2007;Shahidan et al, 2012). It can bring other benefits including the ability to attenuate noise levels (Ozer et al, 2008;Islam et al, 2012;Van Renterghem et al, 2012), improve air quality (Akbari et al, 2001;Jim and Chen, 2008;Nowak et al, 2006) and reduce urban storm water runoff (Bartens et al, 2008;Armson et al, 2012).…”