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Neustar – then the Communications Industry Services (CIS) operating unit within Lockheed Martin – won its original contract to provide local number portability services to select regions throughout North America. Since that time, Neustar has assumed LNP responsibilities for all geographic regions throughout the United States and Canada as the operator of the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC). Neustar subsequently launched wireless number portability to much of the North American market in 2003.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gottdiener

Mark Gottdiener (born 1943) is a professor of sociology at University at Buffalo, specializing in urban sociology.

The first person in the Anglophone world to write an extended analysis of Henri Lefebvre, including comparing his work to traditional urban geography and sociology as well as the Marxist Manuel Castells. Through his major works, The Social Production of Urban Space[1] and The New Urban Sociology[2], which is in its 6th edition, he developed the sociospatial approach to urbanization. The sociospatial perspective focuses our attention on how everyday life in the Multi-Centered Metropolitan Region (MCMR) is affected by the political economy of urban life—the interplay of cultural, political, economic, and social forces both within and outside of urban communities:

The concept of theming has been attributed to Gottdiener's work, first published in 2000 (in particular his book New forms of consumption: Consumers, culture and commodification), and further developed in 2001 (The Theming of America: dreams, media fantasies, and themed environments).[3]

Influenced many contemporary urbanists including internationally with the translations of urban books into Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish and Korean.