The fire and insects weren't the only hazards facing workers in Fordlandia. In the Amazon the traditional tappers of the rubber trees do not work during the rainy season at all, and soon it was ...

Fordlandia isn't just the story of a plantation ... and bats roost in the rafters, and little red fire hydrants sit covered in vines.

Unfortunately, due to infighting, the challenging environment, parasites and plant disease, Ford's utopian city of Fordlandia was doomed from the start, and support for the project was ultimately ...

Argentina ‘s Pampa Films and Lungo Films are teaming up with U.S.-based Bravura Media to produce a series based on the novel “Fordlandia, a Dark Paradise” by Argentine scribe, Eduardo Sguiglia.

But Fordlandia’s sleek, modern hospital has since been destroyed. A 2012 fire destroyed much of its furniture, and in the aftermath, plunderers made away with materials containing lead and ...

“He thought this was the perfect way to save rural life,” said Greg Grandin, a historian and the author of “Fordlandia ... On one side extended fire-hydrant-lined streets: Riverside Avenue ...

L-R: Water tower at Fordlandia in the Amazon Rainforest, Guto Colunga, Rogerio Gomes, Paula Richards Joel Auerbach/Getty Images; Courtesy Guto Colunga (Colunga & Richards) Lars Niki/Corbis via ...