The Portland Badassness Map is a map of Portland neighborhoods ranked according to an arbitrary set of indicators that were chosen to represent Portland. These indicators, when combined, were used to represent and determine which neighborhoods were, in essenece, the most Portland -- or the most badass.
The maps were created largely in response to the 20-Minute Neighborhoods map carefully constructed by the City of Portland. This initiative was to create awareness of the areas which need improvement to reach one of the objectives in Portland’s Climate Action Plan for 2030 which calls for vibrant neighborhoods in which 90% of Portland residents can easily walk or bicycle to meet all basic daily, non-work needs. Of particular interest is food deserts, areas where there are few grocery stores within walking distance.
While the City of Portland's analysis is certainly useful in achieving this goal, the methodology can easily be used to illustrate the most badass places in Portland - and those that are "badass deserts." In the badassness analysis, the Boise neighborhood was the most came out on top. It is also the neighborhood commonly believed to be the most affected by gentrification. A conscious decision was made to avoid selecting indicators that would give precedence to the densest neighborhoods in the city (the Northwest and Pearl neighborhoods) yet several of the inner westside neighborhoods score very highly, including the Goose-Hollow neighborhood.
Below is the video introduction.
Portland Badass-ness Map from Dillon Mahmoudi on Vimeo.
The full set of compiled maps, individual maps, and neighborhood rankings are available in the attached PDF.
