330 - Fordlandia: Henry Ford's Failed Utopia (with Cass Paige)
Do Go On16 Feb 2022

330 - Fordlandia: Henry Ford's Failed Utopia (with Cass Paige)

In the 1920s Henry Ford was one of the richest and most famous people in the world when he decided to set up the "perfect" city in the middle of the Amazon in Brazil. What could go wrong? Everything....


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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/world/americas/deep-in-brazils-amazon-exploring-the-ruins-of-fords-fantasyland.html?auth=login-email&login=email

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Macintyre-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-ruins-of-fordlandia/

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105068620

https://www.amazon.com/Fordlandia-Henry-Fords-Forgotten-Jungle/dp/0312429622

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryford-antisemitism/

https://www.britannica.com/science/rubber-chemical-compound

https://www.al.com/living/2013/01/post_89.html

https://connecticuthistory.org/charles-goodyear-and-the-vulcanization-of-rubber/#:~:text=Even%20Goodyear's%20success%20was%20short,in%201860%2C%20%24200%2C000%20in%20debt.

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