For infrastructural technologies (water, energy,
transport etc.) such conceptualisations have informed
analysis of the ways in which the often hidden and
mundane services of everyday life are provided and
how systems of provision have evolved over time
(Hughes 1983; Schwartz Cowan 1987; Southerton
et al. 2004; Shove 2003). Recent trends, it has been
argued, have the potential for radical transformation
of established infrastructural ideals as urban spaces
and related socio-technical infrastructures fracture and
reform (Graham and Marvin 2001; Coutard 2005).