Aug 19, 2010
![A photograph from Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s 1927 failed attempt to recreate the American small town deep in the jungle of Brazil. But ultimately, [An] “undertaking that had cost Ford upwards of $200 million dollars was abandoned. … Ford had tried not simply control rubber production, but to export the American way life, to force his will on the natural world, and both respects he failed colossally.” Then and now.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7dvqcXdg31qzankho1_500.jpg)
A photograph from Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s 1927 failed attempt to recreate the American small town deep in the jungle of Brazil. But ultimately, [An] “undertaking that had cost Ford upwards of $200 million dollars was abandoned. … Ford had tried not simply control rubber production, but to export the American way life, to force his will on the natural world, and both respects he failed colossally.” Then and now.
