The article is devoted to the development of methodological approaches to assessing the potential socio-economic effects of implementing financial and economic mechanisms for the development of macroregions, urban agglomerations and single-industry towns in the context of a global phase transition. The relevance of the research is due to the overlap of inter-stage transformations—the transition to the sixth technological order and the formation of a new world economic order, which is associated with the emergence of cognitive and technological barriers and the increasing threats of a phase catastrophe. The purpose of the research is to provide theoretical and methodological substantiation and conceptualization of approaches to assessing the potential socio-economic effects of implementing financial and economic mechanisms for the development of macroregions, urban agglomerations and single-industry towns in new civilizational conditions. Comparative historical analysis, civilizational and systematic approach, scenario and institutional analysis are used in the methodological framework of the research. As a result, the need for consolidation of financial, economic and administrative resources, centralization of management within macroregions and agglomerations, and the transition to investment and innovation targeting is substantiated. The conclusions of the research emphasize the importance of subjectivity of territories, the formation of new exchange and infrastructure contours, the development of partnership models (public-private partnerships, inter-municipal unions) and the use of Industry 4.0 technologies. This will ensure the reproduction and development of the sociotechnical potential of territories in conditions of instability and increase their adaptability to future civilizational challenges.
Popadyuka et al. (Sun,) studied this question.