TikTok is banned in India, so for the first 18 years of my life, I had no access to it. When I started college in the U.S., I assumed the app was just for unproductive scrolling — all slime videos and ...

To the nearly 370,000 urbanist geeks around the country who follow Vignesh Swaminathan on Tik Tok, he’s known as “Mr. Barricade.” For almost a year, the mustachioed Indian American urban planner and ...