Development of Urban Forests in Indonesia

1 INTRODUCTIONDevelopment of urban area is often expressed byexistence of growth of city physical, which is moredetermined by existing facilities and basic facilities.Development of urban area indicates tendency for theminimization of green air space as well as eliminatingnatural cover. Many land functions have been changedto become shops, settlements, recreation places,industrial and others.With growing of ability and prosperity of society,development of urban area continues to accelerat…

Development of Urban Forests in Indonesia

Developments in urban area, which result situation of urban environment progressively becomeonly going forward economical but retreat ecologically. Though urban stability is very important ecologically,it is the same important as its stability value economical. Annoyed stability of urban ecosystem showednatures reaction in the form of: the increasing of air temperature, degradation of ground water, floods,degradation of surface of land, sea water intrusion, coastal abrasion, contamination of water in the form ofdrinking water smell, containing heavy metal, contamination of air like the increasing of rate of CO, ozone(O3), carbon-dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx) and brimstone (S), dirt, barren atmosphere, monotonous,dirty and noisy. Some metropolis and developing cities in Indonesia are developing urban forests to anticipatethe above-mentioned problems.