By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/03/2026The prefab houses that Ford ordered for Fordlandia had windows optimized for southern exposure, which is the normal way of designing a dwelling in the northern hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere, you try and put your windows on the *other side* of the building. 9/ 1222 22
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/03/2026Ford's architects told him this, and proposed having the factory flip the orientation. But Ford was adamant: he had a vision for a replica of his beloved Dearborn plunked down smack in the middle of the Amazon jungle, and by God, that was what he would get: memex.craphound.com/2010/06/02/f... 10/memex.craphound.comFordlandia: novelistic history of Henry Ford’s doomed midwestern town in the Amazon jungle – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX 1231 23
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/03/2026Fordlandia was a catastrophe for *so many* reasons, and the windows are just a little footnote, but it's a detail that really stuck with me because it's just *so stupid*. 11/ 1341 34