As a first and obvious application of this mode of geographic study of cities appears the criticism, and; when possible, the amendment of the city's plan, the monotonous rectangularity of the American city, and the petty irregularity more common in our own, being alike uneconomic and inartistic because ungeographic, irrational because irregional.
"Civics: as Applied Sociology"
Patrick Geddes
In a flat and uniform country, road systems may well be rectangular, following section-lines and intermediate lines; but the rectangularity is not the essential merit,-it is only a serviceable way of subdividing the resources.
"The Holy Earth"
L. H. Bailey
The stranger was a very tall man in dark clothes, who gave an instant impression of long rectangularity.
"The Secret Witness"
George Gibbs