Pengaruh Struktur Vegetasi terhadap Iklim Mikro di Kawasan Kota Bekasi

Abstract

The development of a city impacts to the land diversion from green open land into land used, so that the proportion of green open spaces become more diminish. The green open spaces have an important role to control the micro-climate, that provide cosiness for the people who live in there. Green open spaces consists of vegetation structure of the trees, shrubs and grasses. Each of the vegetation structure gives the different effect on the surrounding microclimate. The aim of this study is to determine the influence of the vegetation structure (trees, shrubs and grasses) on microclimate (temperature and humidity) in the different land used such as RTH city, residential, Central Bussiness Distric (CBD) and the industry by using measuring device of temperature and humadity is heavy weather. The result of this study stated that the structure of the trees vegetation is able to reduce the temperature by 0.64-3.97 ° C hinger than other vegetation structure so that the planting of trees a lot quantities at RTH is recommended because its function is very effective in the amelioration of climate. The factors that influence the microclimate are environmental factors, activity area and the type of vegetation that exist in each of the land used.