Kaja Kühl is an urban designer and the principal of youarethecity, a Brooklyn-based design practice. She has extensive design and planning experience from large-scale urban systems and policies to community engagement and tactical urbanism. Working with and speaking to the people that are affected by urban design is at the core of her process. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University GSAPP. Her work and teaching focuses on urban systems and infrastructure, civic engagement and participation, climate action, public space and public art, housing and migration.