Public administration´s focal groups design the cross-sectorial strategy and this articulates, in turn, important environmental infrastructure projects that allow local sociocultural ownership in Bogota. This article first claims that both the fragmentation and emotional and knowledge gaps affect the results of the technical-social works in city sectors. It follows by arguing that higher education ignores the emotional and sociocultural competences that normally arise when working in teams. Hence the excessive knowledge fragmentation among the different levels, desktop jobs and field work disrupt both style and management results impacting upon communities. Lastly it concludes with two important facts, first, teamwork is decisive in transversal management processes and second, the social-mapping methodology is an option to the reinterpretation of local territories while involved in a plenty of uncertainties environment because of the neoliberal politics.