Housing at Pompeii and Herculaneum

a) With reference to source 1 and including your own knowledge, describe housing in Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Housing in Pompeii, by Roman standards, was considered middle to upper class housing, as Pompeii was a city made rich by its wine exports. As Pompeii (pre-eruption geography) and Herculaneum were coastline cities, they have been affirmed as a summer and holiday refuge for the inhabitants of the city. Roman and Pomeiian houses are known to have accomodated in their interiors many rooms. These rooms had such uses as; shops, kitchens, a hallway (atrium), bedrooms, a study, a sitting room, a dining room (triclinium), a pantry and storeroom and a garden. As many of the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum were wealthy Roman citizens, many of the houses include servants quarters.
Roman cities were laid out similiarly to our own, in blocks (insulas). However, these insulas were shaped according to the position of natural landscapes, and the encompassing city walls, which meant ...