Posts Tagged ‘Green Space’
According Lippsmeier in his book Tropebou in the Tropic (tropical buildings), that in every city of having symptoms of so-called “heat island”, the heating-local heating / local in the downtown area caused by the increased activity and development in the region. Increasing temperatures of the central area of the city, many factors that affect, among other things is the reduction of green open spaces in the downtown area, resulting from increasing population and increasing development of the region. From the measurement of temperature increase in the region of Malang city center between the years 2000 to 2010, the average temperature in the same month (June) has a different (increased) nearly reached 2oC, a difference that a significant enough, that was enough to dirarasan by manusia skin . While the result of measurement by comparing the two different areas of the town area of Colonial relics (Monument area) which has a relatively broad green open space (50%) with a large market area, open space, green is minimal (00-30%), at years and obtained the same month in the average temperature difference of 0.72 oC, a very significant difference in the area that is less than 5 km, at a same city. From these conditions the role of green open space area of the city center is very important, to reduce the increase in temperature in the area of Town Center