Riverside regional landscape have been the most representative and valued part of human‐dominated landscape for thousands of years. With the development of social economy and the enhancement of urbanization, riverside areas in landscape are facing a variety of issues: the ecosystem of the riverside is being destroyed; the reconstruction of the riverside is blind and utilitarian; river‐side public space is getting smaller and smaller. Therefore, how to restore the riverside landscape has become a hot topic in the field of landscape architecture today. Furthermore, the phenomenon of "the same model of face" is staged in riverside area landscape. In order to effectively solve the challenges that landscape of riverside area facing, the riverside restoration by ecological landscape design was proposed by many scholars. The study will compare 3 studies of riverside restoration, to find the effective and reasonable ecological landscape design strategies for riverside restoration.