Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford sank millions into making his jungle utopia work the American way, yet not one drop of Fordlandia latex made its way into a Ford car. Today, the ruins ...

Ever since Musk announced plans for his updated version of the company town, I've been thinking about Fordlandia—a slice of suburban Detroit dropped by Henry Ford, then one of the richest men in ...

Chichen Itza The grand-daddy of Mayan ruins, Chichen Itza can easily overwhelm the senses, not only with its sheer size – 200 acres ... Brazil Fordlandia Back in the 1920s, ...

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

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 ...

Fordlândia, the Midwestern city that the pioneering automaker built in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon, has fallen into ruin.

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Henry Ford’s failed industrial town in the Amazon rainforest is the backdrop of a supernatural Brazilian TV drama. Casting is at early stages, with at least one high-profile U.S ...

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 ...