Consumption amenities and city population density

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What Are Cities Worth? Land Rents, Local Productivity, and the Total Value of Amenities (2016, background): “Rappaport (2008a, 2008b) is the only author who accounts for locally produced goods, although he restricts home productivity and trade productivity to be equal.”
Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life across Metropolitan Areas (2008, background): “…for amenities such as climate, safety, and clean air.1 Despite its solid foundations on revealed-preference theory, the QOL indices found in the eco- nomic literature (e.g. Blomquist, Berger, and Hoehn 1988; Gyourko and Tracy 1989) often seem counterintuitive or "misplaced"(Rappaport 2008).”
Beautiful city: Leisure amenities and urban growth (2019, background): “6 Rosen (1974), Roback (1982), Blomquist, Berger, and Hoehn (1988), Gabriel and Rosenthal (2004), Rappaport (2008), Albouy (2016).”
The economic effects of density: A synthesis (2019, unknown): “Our results are also close to Rappaport (2008) who estimates an elasticity of 0.34 across US metropolitan areas.”
The increasing importance of quality of life (2009, methodology): “A more detailed discussion of the calibration is included in Rappaport (2008a).”