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The literary geography on the countryside has a remarkable tradition, as a source of study in the field of rural geography, since the nineteenth century. With the new cultural tendencies the use of written texts is revitalized, even as a source of research. In the present contribution, the theme of depopulation in rural Spain is addressed, through the systematic study of the narrative on this subject, mainly novels. There are different points of view in the novel about depopulation: the novel about the last inhabitant of a town; the novel about the depopulation as a new territorial context of the (new) rural inhabitants; the novel about rural depopulation in a town or territory with opposing points of view, the rural idyll and the anti rural idyll. Literary geography contributes to the socio-cultural continuity of depopulation. The literature on rural depopulation and its diverse interpretations can be conceptualized as a form of intervention into these politics. ; Peer reviewed

The decline of city heart lands is a now generalized phenomenum in the which a whole series of factors are here felt to be in play. It is seen to normally go hand in hand with a decentralizing dispersal of economic activity the which brings in a sapping of areas hitherto highly productive. Great Britain is a nation that has now a well tried tradition in the field of re-vitalizing twilight city zones. This is seen to be due to its economic and political circumstances. The Conservative Party's name has come to be linked with the so-called City Development Corporations, these being exemplified by that set up in London where, under the name of the London Dockland Development Corporation, it undertook a far reaching redeveloping of the moribund docklands by putting up the area for other uses. ; La decadencia de los centros urbanos es un fenómeno de carácter general, en el que intervienen un gran número de factores. Normalmente va aparejado a una descentralización espacial de las actividades económicas, lo que produce el declive de antiguas zonas de localización industrial. Gran Bretaña es uno de los países donde las políticas de regeneración de áreas urbanas en declive ha tenido mayor tradición. Su desarrollo está unido a circunstancias económicas y políticas. Asociado al gobierno conservador y a su política económica liberal aparecen las Corporaciones de Desarrollo Urbano, que tienen su mayor exponente en la creada en Londres. Constituida bajo el nombre de London Dockland Development Corporation inicia un amplio proceso de recuperación de la antigua zona portuaria de Londres, ofertando suelo para otros usos.