"Being in Taiwan often feels like living in a prison. Concrete dikes along the seafront and beside the rivers block our view of nature and make us feel hemmed in. And concrete is a cold, depressing material, the very symbol of imprisonment. Regeneration and greenification represented a liberation in our hearts," says the conservation society representative, explaining the idea behind the Riverside Park regeneration project.
「我們常感到台灣宛若一座監獄；海邊、河邊、溪邊的堤防將人們禁錮得不能親近天然的海水，而且冰冷的水泥正是監獄的象徵，改造和美化她，就代表心靈得到解放，」林邊文史工作室的一群義工說明他們參與河濱公園改造的理念。