PENGARUH KARAKTERISTIK TUMBUHAN TERHADAP PENURUNAN SUHU UDARA

The demand for using urban land always grows and be acseleratif for the construction of urban facilities, including advances of technology, industry and transportation, in addition to frequently change the natural configuration of the land / urban landscape are also confiscating lands and various other open space formation. Green Open Space is a space in the urban areas in the city or the large region, both in the form of elongated area / pathway or clustered, where its use is more open, containing the green plants or plants that grow naturally or crop cultivation . Exsistence of green open space have big enough to have benefit of the quality of city environment , for example by controller of micro climate. Based on the analysis results showed the character of a city park in terms of vegetation distribution and tree density result of Dr. Sutomo Park is an excellent achievement from Prestasi Park and Diponegoro. Spacing of plants is the most influential to decrease air temperature with the value obtained is 1.429. while the micro climate conditions as a whole are included in the category of "comfortable", that condition is influenced by vegetation density at each park. Keywords: green open space, microclimate, vegetation distribution, comfort index