David Miet

David Miet is an engineer, urban planner, and holds a PhD in architecture. After a decade leading research and development initiatives at the French Ministry of Ecology, he co-founded Villes Vivantes alongside Thomas Hanss, Amandine Hernandez, Denis Caraire, and Paul Lempérière. His ambition? To make well-designed, affordable, and well-located housing accessible to all through gentle densification.

In partnership with pioneering local authorities, he and the Villes Vivantes team are developing the first prototypes of BIMBY, BAMBA, BUNTI BRAMBLE and WIMBY operations — groundbreaking approaches that use residents’ own housing projects as the raw material for creating vibrant, small-scale, community-driven urban development. These innovations offer fresh, luminous ways for people to become neighbors.