Half as many people will not support half as many enterprises In a given geographical territory, half as many people will not support half as many such enterprises spaced at twice the distance. When distance inconvenience sets in, the small, the various and the personal wither away. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities densitydistancegeographybusinesseconomics
Parkinson's Law Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Hofstadter's Law worktimeproductivity