books.google.it - Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important development...http://books.google.it/books/about/Living_Cities_in_Japan_Citizens_Movement.html?id=8QU-FcqL2NIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLiving Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments