ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses the readiness of Soviet urban people for the post-industrial tendencies of the microchip age. Leadership among innovative cities in the 1980s is no longer linked with sizeable employment. In urban analysis numerous features of each city are converted into co-ordinate values that describe a city's location within some artificially created multidimensional feature of classification space. Systems of measurement in this space are defined by the co-ordinate axes, which are selected and assigned scales in such a way as to encompass the maximum amount of variance in the initial data. Both management of resources and organizational settings of Soviet industrial centres follow distinct geographical patterns. The main message from the analysis is that it is too early to apply a post-industrial explanation for the misfortune of Soviet cities which have little or no development and growth.
