Fordlandia (Brazil)- 99% Invisible
In the late 1920s, the Ford Motor Company bought up millions of acres of land in Brazil. They loaded boats with machinery and supplies, and shipped...
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Fordlandia - Ford's attempt to build a worker's utopia in the jungles of Brazil
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Lost cities #10: Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon | Cities | The Guardian
In the 1920s the US industrialist wanted to found a city based on the values that made his company a success – while, of course, producing cheap ru...
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