Does nobody consider the carrying capacity of an area, that only so many people can live in an area under given zoning regulations, and that further increase of

Does nobody consider the carrying capacity of an area, that only so many people can live in an area under given zoning regulations, and that further increase of population density necessarily causes fundamental change to living conditions? Romantic as the notion of avoiding displacement is, either density increases or price increases - both unpleasant. Exponential population increase in a geographically limited mostly-2-dimensional area can’t retain the same quaint culture. Change happens. Stability can’t be decreed.