The international Cittaslow movement brings together towns that promote the slow life philosophy. The concept has been developed in response to the increasing pace of life and the adverse effects of globalization. According to the members of Cittaslow, the organization contributes to the sustainable development of their regions and to improvement of the quality of life. In view of the benefits of Cittaslow membership confirmed by research studies, the question arises whether the concept of Cittaslow could also be introduced in rural areas. This paper seeks to answer the above question. The study involved an analysis of the Cittaslow membership criteria (Cittaslow goals) and a survey conducted among the inhabitants of the Warmian village of Żabi Róg. The results of the study were used to test the research hypothesis and to assess the quality of life in the analyzed area.

The study discusses the problem of financial impact on Wroclaw Municipality exerted by the costs of implementing decisions resulting from the selected local spatial development plans. Currently in Poland, at the stage of local spatial development plan establishment, a forecast of financial consequences is prepared. The expected own revenues and the costs of financial impact exerted on the municipal budget are presented in this document. The study facilitates making decisions about the final version of the local development plan. Taking into account the planned spatial development in the area of Wroclaw city, the urbanization costs exerting financial impact on the municipal budget were identified. The study analyses only the cost of implementing investments within the scope of the municipality own tasks, including the cost of constructing municipal roads, sanitary sewerage system, water supply system, public greenery facilities and land purchase for public investments. The analyses covered two selected areas of the city, located in its different parts. These are largely uninvested areas, predominantly constituting agricultural land, and such land development requires the construction of technical and social infrastructure facilities. The anticipated costs of implementing local development plans in force in various parts of Wroclaw indicate significant expenses to be covered by Wroclaw Municipality in order to build sewage systems and municipal roads. Taking up new development sites is also correlated with taking over the real properties by Wroclaw city, on which the implementation of public goals is planned.

For photogrammetric works, a fundamental issue is the determination of camera internal orientation parameters (IOP). Without camera calibration, it is difficult to imagine a correct adjustment of the image network. Many industries use nonmetric cameras, ranging from automatics and robotics, to heritage inventories, and the increasingly popular social mapping phenomenon uses low-budget cameras. Many different calibration methods exist, but dedicated calibration fields are commonly replaced by fast in-plane calibration with regular patterns. The main goal of this research is to verify the thesis that calibrating cameras on a checkerboard gives worse results in determining IOP than on a laboratory test field which may translate into the resulting model. For the purpose of this study, a special field was constructed, allowing calibration of the instruments on the basis of the network solution by the bundle adjustment. Unlike classical 2D fields, the field is equipped with a cork background providing a good base for matching and automatically detecting measurement marks. Calibration results were compared with calibration performed on a checkerboard implemented in MATLAB Camera Calibration Toolbox. In order to determine IOP in MATLAB, images of the checkerboard must be taken in such a way, that the whole pattern fits into the frame, otherwise toolbox defines the incorrectly coordinate system, which has a bad impact on calibration results. Moreover, the determined parameters have several times larger standard deviations than those determined in the laboratory test field, which confirms the thesis.