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TIL - Henry Ford built a failed community called “Fordlândia” in Brazil, he planned it as an industrial utopia.

99percentinvisible.org Fordlandia - 99% Invisible

In the late 1920s, the Ford Motor Company bought up millions of acres of land in Brazil. They loaded boats with machinery and supplies, and shipped them deep into the Amazon rainforest. Workers cut down trees and cleared the land and then they built a rubber plantation in the middle of one of the wi...

Fordlandia - 99% Invisible
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