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2. www.businessinsider.com › fordlandia-henry-fordHenry Ford built 'Fordlandia,' a utopian city inside Brazil's ...

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   Henry Ford built 'Fordlandia,' a utopian city inside Brazil's Amazon rainforest that's now abandoned — take a look around. Katie Canales. Updated. Feb 10, 2020, 6:56 AM PST. The Fordlandia water ...

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   Fordlândia. /  3.83139°S 55.49750°W  / -3.83139; -55.49750. Fordlândia ( Portuguese pronunciation: [fɔʁdʒiˈlɐ̃dʒjɐ], Ford-land) is a district and adjacent area of 14,268 square kilometres (5,509 sq mi) in the city of Aveiro, in the Brazilian state of Pará. It is located on the east banks of the Tapajós river roughly 300 ...

4. allthatsinteresting.com › fordlandia-henry-fordInside Fordlândia, Henry Ford's Failed Utopia In Brazil

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   Jun 24, 2020 · Published June 24, 2020. In 1928, Henry Ford broke ground on Fordlândia, a rubber-producing town in Brazil that he hoped would supply his car factories and serve as a model industrial society. Instead, it devolved into a dystopia. Henry Ford Collection Aerial view of Ford’s rubber town in 1934. Henry Ford was a man of many contradictions.

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   Where is Fordlandia?

   • Fordl Ndia Ford S Lost... A small town meant to resemble the Northern Michigan of the 1930s, Fordlândia is frozen in time deep in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. This remote piece of land was developed in 1928 by the Ford motor company as a means for the largest rubber plantation on the planet.

   Fordlndia: Fords Lost America In The Heart Of Brazil - Culture Trip

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   Was FORDLANDIA a colonial country?

   • For all their suspicions of U.S colonialism, Brazilians and their dependents living at Fordlândia did receive the amenities and provisions promised to them. Indeed, Fordlândia was always about much more than rubber, with Henry Ford seeking to recreate an idyllic American society founded on his own morals and values.

   Henry Ford’s Calamitous Rainforest Utopia: Fordlândia

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   What was Fordlândia like?

   • Indeed, Fordlândia was always about much more than rubber, with Henry Ford seeking to recreate an idyllic American society founded on his own morals and values. Amazonians employed by Ford received a free home, free medical and dental care, recreational facilities, and a wage ranging from the equivalent of thirty-three to sixty-six cents per day.

   Henry Ford’s Calamitous Rainforest Utopia: Fordlândia

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   How many people live in Fordlândia?

   • Hardly a lost city, Fordlândia is home to about 2,000 people, some who live in the crumbling structures built nearly a century ago. An encroaching forest frames the decaying walls of the Fordlândia hospital. Bryan Denton for The New York Times

   Deep in Brazil’s Amazon, Exploring the Ruins of Ford’s Fantasyland

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2017/02/20 › worldDeep in Brazil’s Amazon, Exploring the Ruins of Ford’s ...

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   Feb 20, 2017 · These days, the ruins of Fordlândia stand as testament to the folly of trying to bend the jungle to the will of man. A resident of Fordlândia near the workshops and warehouses that were the ...

7. www.historyisnowmagazine.com › blog › 2022/2/1Henry Ford’s Calamitous Rainforest Utopia: Fordlândia

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   Feb 1, 2022 · Henry Ford built 'Fordlândia’, a utopian city inside Brazil's Amazon rainforest that's now abandoned — take a look around, Business Insider, 10 February 2020. Lost cities #10: Fordlândia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon, The Guardian, 19 August 2016.

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9. www.atlasobscura.com › places › fordlandiaFordlândia – Aveiro, Brazil - Atlas Obscura

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   Sep 14, 2016 · Ford retired from the rubber industry in 1945 after losing over $20 million in the Amazon (over $200 million in today’s dollars). The Brazilian government purchased all of Ford’s land for a ...

10. theculturetrip.com › south-america › brazilFordlndia: Fords Lost America In The Heart Of Brazil

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    Feb 9, 2017 · Situated on the banks of the Rio Tapajós near the city of Santarém, Brazil, Fordlândia was the centerpiece town of a land grant concession, consisting of two and a half million acres, the size of a small American state (think: Connecticut or Delaware), and often compared to Tennessee. The plantations were testaments to the innovations of ...