A few months ago I wrote about Fordlandia - a new town built by Henry Ford in Brazil to try and control the delivery of rubber to his factories in the US. This was his second attempt after trying to build another town in Muscle Shoals in Alabama. There is another attempt at building a town for workers - this time in Mexico. Audi has built a plant in the middle of nowhere, … [Read more...]
A New World in The New World
One reason why the world is populated over so much of its land mass is the desire of humans to find nirvana or a better place to live within their own community sharing common values - and often groups of like-minded people have started afresh. The Quakers did it and even in the 1960s Belgium had a new town built to allow two groups to live separately: Leuven (the Flemish/Dutch … [Read more...]
