Neil Spiller
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Professor of Architectural and Digital Theory, Neil has written extensively on the future of architecture and urban environments, most notably as author of Visionary Architecture.

  • The car home extension by Neil Spiller
  • Urban Planning Tue, 9 Oct 2007 4:30 p.m.

  • Imagine it’s the future. You’re standing in a residential area of a British city. Thanks to cleaner car technology, the suburbs are leafier than they used to be. The buildings look cleaner and brighter, with façades that incorporate more glass and sustainable materials such as woods. Yet perhaps the most surprising feature of this landscape is the absence of parked cars.

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  • Realising the dream of the green urban sprawl by Neil Spiller
  • Urban Planning Tue, 9 Oct 2007 4:11 p.m.

  • It is said that a city’s skyline can be viewed as a four-dimensional graph of evolving land prices. Skyscrapers point to expensive business districts; clusters of cranes point to upcoming areas of commercial development; and high-rise dormitories built by local authorities point to cheap labour and "key workers".

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  • Realising the dream of a green urban sprawl by Neil Spiller
  • Urban Planning Tue, 9 Oct 2007 4:39 p.m.

  • It is said that a city's skyline can be viewed as a four-dimensional graph of evolving land prices. Skyscrapers point to expensive business districts; clusters of cranes point to upcoming areas of commercial development; and high-rise dormitories built by local authorities point to cheap labour and "key workers".

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  • How a hybrid city might look and feel by Neil Spiller
  • Urban Planning Tue, 9 Oct 2007 4:39 p.m.

  • A city in which the majority of cars were hybrids would look very different from the polluted urban spaces of today. Architects have been conditioned to design buildings that "turn their backs to the street". Since the early 20th Century, they’ve had to grapple with road noise, the dirt from exhaust fumes and the potential damage of high-speed crashes. If city traffic were much cleaner and quieter, buildings would have lighter interiors, better internal quality and façades that were more open and sociable.

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  • The car as environmental educator by Neil Spiller
  • Environment Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:07 p.m.

  • If you’re trying to adapt your driving habits to environmental concerns, one of biggest challenges is getting hold of reliable, unbiased and easy-to-grasp information. Satellite navigation systems enable us to be "greener" indirectly, by calculating optimally fuel-efficient routes. But they could, in conjunction with other existing technologies, supply us with much richer information and, as a result, do much more to improve our behaviour.

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