Seattle?s Denny Substation, by the architecture firm NBBJ, represents a new wave of multi-use infrastructure that enhances civic experience. | Benjamin Benschneider / Courtesy NBBJ

It involves unbuilding our mistakes?and building an equitable, just, and sustainable future Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently released two beautiful posters advertising the Green New Deal, the first in a series meant to build excitement for policy on net-zero carbon emissions, new sustainable infrastructure, and millions of new jobs. The posters are evocative and optimistic, depicting high-speed rail alongside iconic monuments in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and Pelham Bay Park, two New York City public works projects funded with 1930s New Deal money. Tandem, the posters? designers, riffed on the beloved National Parks promotional posters from the WPA, the agency behind many New Deal infrastructure projects. The posters are a look forward that mines heavily from the past, just like the Green New Deal framework itself. But to get to where we really need to go, nostalgia won?t be enough. We?ll have to imagine public works as we?ve never seen them before.

Our #GreenNewDeal posters are inspired by the original New Deal, updated for our future.

During the New Deal, FDR launched Federal One, a US project that employed 5,300 artists that created & taught art to envision America?s future.

Left, #TeamAOC; right, original US New Deal pic.twitter.com/l3PZzlEhzw? Alexandria Ocasio-Cort...