Roman Cities Research Paper

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Rome was considered a large urban city which attracted many types of people to it. The types of homes that people lived in depended on many factors such as economic status, social status, and type of work they performed. For example, politicians would live in decent homes, while maybe a poor worker might live in an apartment. Furthermore, wealthy people would own homes in the city to be close to where they worked and owned homes somewhere else that was used for vacations.
Rome suffered many of the problems that modern cities face today. Rome had problems with crime, overcrowding, fires, unsanitary conditions, poverty, and political corruption. Additionally, apartment buildings that were available in Rome often were overcrowded and contained many fire hazards. Moreover, some apartment buildings would collapse from poor construction. The apartments were occupied by working class citizens who had to share cooking and sanitation facilities.
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Streets would be often very narrow and uneven, making it impossible to put out any fires in the many apartment buildings in Rome. It was not until much later when Emperor Nero set laws to make it safer to live in these apartments. Additionally, the floor level that families lived on depended on income level. The families with higher income lived on ground floors that were spacious and contained indoor plumbing, while the higher-level floors were often rented by poorer tenants who paid by the week or day. Moreover, those families often lived in one room and had no access to indoor plumbing. Since most homes and apartment building did not contain indoor plumbing that hooked up to sewer systems most people would dump their waste out into the streets. Furthermore, the waste would cause horrible smells and breed bacteria that would spread disease across the