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Ricardo Cardoso

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Ricardo Cardoso

Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning

cardoso.24@osu.edu

Knowlton Hall
Knowlton School
275 West Woodruff Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • African Studies
  • Global Metropolitan Studies

Ricardo Cardoso is an Assistant Professor in the City and Regional Planning Section at the Knowlton School. He earned his PhD in City and Regional Planning with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and he holds an MSc in Urban Development Planning from University College London as well as a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Porto. Before joining OSU, Ricardo was an Assistant Professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and held post-doctoral positions at the University of Cape Town, New York University, and the University of Porto.

Expertise

Ricardo Cardoso’s research centers on transnational urbanism, the urban effects of oil economies, and the politics of development and change in African cities. Focusing on Luanda, Angola, his work takes an interdisciplinary perspective to study critical intersections between energy regimes and emerging modes of urbanization. His ongoing book project—Luanda Unbounded: Energy Futures in the Throes of a Crude Urban Revolution—offers a critical examination of how changing patterns of energy generation shape socio-spatial forms in cities sustained and conditioned by the export of hydrocarbons. Based on long-term fieldwork, this contributes to debates on the future of energy in the age of climate change and its impact on the world’s cities. Ricardo also sustains a continued interest in development and planning issues in Portugal.