Abstract: The waterfront space improvement design is necessary to ensure the sustainable development of urban watercourse construction. According to the urbanization development features and the watercourse construction needs, it clarifies the objectives of waterfront space design, analyzes the design concepts and ideas that can adapt to urban development, and proposes a waterfront space design scheme that integrates“point and line” with function as the point and river as the line. The scheme has been applied in a watercourse comprehensive improvement project.