Dispossession, eviction, and displacement caused by neoliberal urban regeneration have become a major topic for criticism in the fields of geography and planning. Yet, recent critical research has argued that urban regeneration schemes are often explored through a universalising approach, detached from the local histories of the places studied. Furthermore, a significant part of published research on urban regeneration has not heeded the extensive literature on the role of temporalities in space production, despite its half-century presence in human geography. Hence, I suggest focusing on time as a tool for exploring actually existing neoliberal urban regeneration processes in the present. Furthermore, I underscore the need to examine non-Eurocentric temporalities and develop a rooted lexicon to reconceptualise urban processes by analysing four studies on the temporal experiences of residents living in neighbourhoods undergoing urban regeneration in Baku, Azerbaijan; New Saigon, Vietnam; Recife, Brazil; and the pre-1948 Palestinian city of Jaffa, Israel.