Correction
Concepts Systems
Emergence Explained with Examples
Traffic jams emerge from individual drivers' behavior without central coordination. Complex patterns arise from simple rules applied by many agents.
What was corrected
What the page claimed
Article presented an absolute claim about cities never being designed, when notable counterexamples of comprehensively planned cities exist.
What was corrected
Softened the claim to acknowledge planned-city exceptions while preserving the article's core point about organic urban emergence.
Why this is better
This finding was originally identified by Codex's fact-check pass. Geoffrey West's scaling-law citation in the same section was already appropriately hedged (noting statistical fit, exceptions, and mechanism debates) and required no correction.