While there are abandon buildings, don't call Fordlandia a ghost town; people continued to live in Fordlandia ever since the company left.

Henry Ford built his what he considered his idealized city in the Amazon Rainforest, Fordlandia, but circumstances left it abandoned shortly afterward.

Building the Midwest in the Amazon. Henry Ford had a problem. ... “He thought this was the perfect way to save rural life,” says Greg Grandin, a historian and the author of Fordlandia: ...

It wasn't just work habits that Ford wished to shape in Fordlandia. For example, he tried to force workers to consume foods like whole-wheat bread and brown rice, based upon his views of healthy ...

A UTOPIAN city deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle has been left to crumble since it was abandoned at the end of World War II. Fordlandia was created by Henry Ford who took his revolutionary car… ...

Building the Midwest in the Amazon. ... “He thought this was the perfect way to save rural life,” said Greg Grandin, a historian and the author of “Fordlandia: ...

Since the 1990s, residents have pushed Brazil’s National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN) to grant Fordlandia historical recognition, a status which would protect its buildings ...

EXCLUSIVE: Henry Ford’s failed industrial town in the Amazon rainforest is the backdrop of a supernatural Brazilian TV drama. Fordlândia — Battle Between Worlds is in development at Diosual ...

Henry Ford's failed industrial town in the Amazon Rainforest Fordlandia is the backdrop of of a supernatural Brazilian TV drama.

The series project, titled “Fordlandia,” is among the 10 series pitches to be presented at this week’s Iberseries & Platino Industria’s Co-Production and Financing Forum in Madrid. Related ...

A UTOPIAN city deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle has been left to crumble since it was abandoned at the end of World War II. Fordlandia was created by Henry Ford who took his revolutionary car… ...