Open Space in Denpasar City

'HEAT ISLAND EFFECT' DEPRECIATION DUE TO OPEN SPACE IN THE CITY OF DENPASAR

"Heat Island Effect" is a phenomenon that frequently occur in urban areas as a result of the development density buildings in the city. Where this effect causes the air in downtown will be more felt hotter than the suburbs or to say that the temperature in the city center was the most high and will decrease gradually toward the edge of town. The temperature difference between the downtown area and suburbs will grow rapidly after sunset. Based on research conducted by some experts, the air temperature around the central city than the suburbs will have a temperature difference of 3-5°C. It can also be felt in Denpasar, especially in the dry season ago.

For those who live near the center of town that is on Jl. Diponegoro, Teuku Umar and surrounding it at night sometimes the air was warmer than during the day. This is because the heat in the evening return run into difficulty because the closed-ground by concrete, asphalt and others. Another case to the district on the outskirts of town that is about Peguyangan and surrounding areas where there is little difference between the heat during the day and night.

For those who live near the center of town that is on Jl. Diponegoro, Teuku Umar and surrounding it at night sometimes the air was warmer than during the day. This is because the heat absorbed during the day and will be returned in the evening experiencing difficulty because of the closed ground by concrete, asphalt and others. Another case to the district on the outskirts of town that is about Peguyangan and surrounding areas where there is little difference between the heat during the day and night.

Conditions like these show that in Denpasar also began to decline in area of urban open space. Although in some parts of the city there is ample open space such as open space in Monument Jagadnata Renon and Catur Muka but in some parts of the city open space are very narrow so that a balance between built space and open space around this area also decreases.

To overcome the problems of diminishing open space in the city of Denpasar, it is necessary to structuring a more insightful cultural city. Denpasar is a city that slogan City of Culture Concept so that it would need to provide open spaces, especially as a place for community interaction and the environment..

To overcome the problems of diminishing open space in Denpasar, the necessary restructuring measures face a vision of the city into a city of culture. Denpasar is a city that slogan City of Culture Concept so that it would need to provide open spaces, especially as a place for community interaction and the environment.

Open space is not just a green open space in the form of playground and sports field but also the empty spaces that function as absorbing rainwater and so forth. It also required the actions mainly in the form of spatial interventions include: revitalization of the city through: rejuvenation of urban open spaces in the form of restructuring, improving the function of urban open space and so forth, especially for the region woke up around the banks of the river, urban renewall especially around the area of the crowded city, old town area and others.

With the implementation of the actions mentioned above it is expected that "heat island effect" that has occurred in the city of Denpasar can be reduced and minimized, so that within one or two following decades as the city of Denpasar oriented culture is not merely a slogan but will be retained and enhanced.