In the end, Ford's utopia failed. Fordlandia's residents, ever in hope their patriarch would someday visit their Midwestern industrial town in the middle of the jungle, gave up and left.

Ford bought over 6 million acres of Brazilian land and shipped in employees from Michigan to manage the model town named Fordlândia. Its workers—both American and Brazilian—were forced to ...

The easiest way to get there is to fly. After touchdown in the city of Manaus, Brazil, you boat down the Amazon, then up a tributary called the Tapajós. The last real sign of civilization is the ...

Fordlandia was the Ford Motor Company founder's industrial operation meets social experiment in northern Brazil in the 1920s.

Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, a Pulitzer-Prize finalist, is a 20th-century tale of. ... has literally whipped communities off the map.

When Henry Ford bought up a Connecticut-sized chunk of land in the Amazon River basin in 1927, he wasn't just planning to build his own... 'Fordlandia': An Automaker's Failed Jungle Utopia Given ...

"Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City " is Latin American historian Greg Grandin's account of the cities Ford, hoping to mass produce rubber for car tires, ...

River Road Entertainment, the company behind Tree of Life, is hoping to bring to the screen an adaptation of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City.. Ben Coccio, who ...

Fordlandia's managers and foremen were mostly engineers, precise in their measurement of time and motion. One of the first things the Americans did was set their clocks to Detroit time, ...

Fordlandia isn't just the story of a plantation; it's a story about Ford's ego. As disaster after disaster struck, Ford continued to pour money into the project.