Fordlandia
the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city
About this book
The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
Subjects
- american influences
- automobilindustrie
- brazil, civilization
- brazil, history
- brazil, politics and government
- business & investing -- biography & history -- company profiles
- city planning, brazil
- civilization
- collectivités nouvelles
- ford, henry, 1863-1947
- ford, henry, -- 1863-1947 -- political and social views
- ford motor company
- gummiindustrie
- histoire
- history
- history -- americas -- south america -- brazil
- history -- americas -- united states -- 20th century
- influence
- influence (literary, artistic, etc.)
- nonfiction -- automotive -- industry
- planned communities
- plantations
- plantations d'arbres à caoutchouc
- political and social views
- rubber plantations
- städtebau