Urban Riverfront Improvement: Waterfront Steps and Flood-Tolerant Vegetation

Design the restored bank of a small urban river in Taiwan, replacing a concrete channel with a walkable edge. Compose broad stone steps stepping down from the street level to the water in three terraces, the lowest one designed to be submerged when the river rises, planted with flood-tolerant grasses and reeds that lie flat under flow. Keep the top terrace dry and furnished with benches under a row of trees. Use rough local stone with open joints so plants seed into them. Show the water level low with the flood terrace exposed and silt-marked. Warm late afternoon light on the wet stone, oblique view along the bank, 28mm lens, landscape architecture photography, ultra photorealistic