Roger and Louise Barker later traveled to Yorkshire England to study behavior settings in a comparable town in England. More attention was directed toward communities, organizations, and schools. For example, study of the effects of school size on children. At that time most psychological research was being performed in sterile lab settings. Eventually, after Barker's retirement in 1971, the station was closed down due to lack of funding.
Behavior settings are public environments.
A behavior setting is not just one bunch of objects. Novices or newcomers must learn the layout and setting program. This is a prescribed sequence of transactions between people and objects. E.g., restaurant setting. Setting programs are composed of condition-action units which join action steps.