The phrase "last mile" reveals an interesting civilizational blindspot since the consumption locus is actually the middle of the journey of anything. The endpoint is landfill or recycling locus. If you set consumption locus =0, you get 1st and -1st miles...
Though the term does not appear in it, I trace the spirit of it to Herbert Spencer's Social Organism essay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_organism …
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Probably depends how broadly it's defined. In terms of movement of people the idea (under a different name) is probably at least as old as horse-drawn predecessors of urban commuter trains. From a quick search Wikipedia actually describes it as originating in telecommunications.
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The last mile concept wouldn't have been as intuitive in medieval Florence as after Victorian times, where corridors became explicit to connect rooms that were terminal (i.e. tree topology). Whereas Raphael like all his rooms in a matrix form. https://emthesis.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/evans-figures-doors-and-passages.pdf …
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