All rights reservedWang, SichengLe, KekeLin, Jiaying2024-03-112024-03-112015978-80-01-05782-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1409Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Definite Space – Fuzzy Responsibility, Prague, 13-16th July, 2015Creative city is the current hotspot in urban planning against the background of urbanization and economic transition in China The urban zone around Tongji University in Shanghai is a typical creative community, which has undergone more than 20 years of development, from the spontaneous clustering of creative industries to organized planning and managing led by local authorities This study focuses on the history and future trend of this community People element of a creative city for that University and Company would function University is the institution for educating people, while Company provide for the working of People. Consequently, the links among People, University Company reflect the creativity performance of a community This study visualizes this relevance with methods of data analysis The famous international professional social network LinkedIn is taken as the information of personal identity, education and employment of individuals in creative industries within Tongji Rim are collected from users homepages Through analysis of the intrinsic link between the research objects by data quantification and statistical distribution observation, characteristics and internal factors of development of a university-oriented creative industries area has been observed.EnglishopenAccessCreative communityCareer trackProfessional social networkconferenceObject2326 - 2340