Abstract Urban waterfront area planning is a very important part to improve the quality of the urban ecological environment. Research effective planning paths of urban waterfront guided by ecological environment effect can promote landscape diversity index and other indicators are selected as the relevant indicators of the ecological environment which establish comprehensive evaluation index system of urban waterfront public place planning path. Use the fuzzy statistical path to determine the evaluation index weight, establish the waterfront public place planning path evaluation model according to the waterfront public place planning evaluation index weight, and use the model evaluation results to determine the effective planning paths of urban waterfront guided by the ecological environment effect. The experimental results show that the evaluation score of urban waterfront planning path 2 is the highest, which verifies that planning path 2 is an effective planning path of waterfront public places guided by considering the ecological and environmental effects.