The monastery as a restorative environment

By P. Ouellette, R. Kaplan, Stephen Kaplan. 2005

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Development of the PRCQ: A measure of perceived restorative characteristics of zoo attractions (2009, background): “In addition, Ouellette, Kaplan, and Kaplan (2005) examined the restorative value of a monastery.”
A Review of Psychological Literature on the Health and Wellbeing Benefits of Biophilic Design (2015, background): “According to Kaplan and Kaplan [9] and Ulrich and colleagues [12] natural environments in particular contain elements that promote renewed attention by providing a sense of being away, fascination, extent and compatibility [13]; and by containing elements that promote survival and therefore positive”
The effects of urban retail greenery on consumer experience: Reviewing the evidence from a restorative perspective (2010, background): “Although ART does not exclude that non-natural settings can rest directed attention (e.g. Kaplan et al., 1993; Ouellette et al., 2005), restorative research experiments have to this day mainly focused on the restorative qualities of natural settings, and elements (e.”
The Role of Nature in Coping with Psycho-Physiological Stress: A Literature Review on Restorativeness (2014, background): “and some urban environments, such historical environments [18], museums [34], or monasteries [35], can sustain restoration because they have to some extent restorative qualities, are easily approachable and so compatible with the little free time of the majority of the inhabitants of the city [36,37”