Adding problems and needs (though with solutions) to the world is not growth or life.
For example, you design cities with far away work places and high buildings. That's a problem you added. Roads, cars, lifts, concrete are the solutions you sell. You call that ideas or inventions or technology.
The first company I worked for, has the work place in a forest with no city or town nearby. They built a colony around the work place with all amenities included. There was no need to go to city.
Prior to that I lived at a village that has complete self-sufficiency, right from food grains to clothes and building material. No need to run to the town.
No supply chain, no truck loads of goods.