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 ...

a historian and the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City. By some measures, Ford succeeded. By the 1930s, a new town had risen out of the forest.

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 ...

a historian and the author of “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City.” By some measures, Ford succeeded. By the 1930s, a new town had risen out of the forest.

L-R: Water tower at Fordlandia in the Amazon Rainforest ... Henry Ford‘s failed industrial town in the Amazon rainforest is the backdrop of a supernatural Brazilian TV drama.

On the banks of the Tapajós River, he established the prefabricated industrial town of Fordlandia. The project was earmarked for failure from its inception. Notorious for his scorn for experts, the ...

But nature is sovereign — nobody beats nature,” Ribeiro said during a recent tour of the town. A short middle-aged man with closely cropped black hair, Ribeiro grew up in Fordlandia.

a historian and the author of "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City." By some measures, Ford succeeded. By the 1930s, a new town had risen out of the forest.

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 ...