Two essential characteristics of urban sustainability are social and physical structure and their balance within the area. “Bad image” is usually representation of such disbalance within or between these categories. This may cause both interventions or obstacles regarding further development. The paper focuses on particular steps and relevances of wrong perceived neighbourhoods. It presents the “second sights” showing that the social structure may be able to compensate the physical one (and on the other hand wrong physical transformation can destroy the vitality).