Making Spaces for Community Development offers an account of the key changes to the context and practice of community development since the 1970s told through the experiences and insights of a group of highly experienced practitioners. The book focuses on dilemmas arising in the shift to partnership working from a more confrontational model, and the professionalization of the field. It brings together a wealth of experience and knowledge from across areas of youth work and play, the environment, community enterprise, race equality, immigration, and housing. It raises key questions for contemporary debates and current practice. It also provides an opportunity to listen to the insights from previous practice.