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I would choose London, then Paris. I've not been to Rome since I was young.
This has been the case at least since London began upgrading its public spaces. I can't emphasize just how much difference it makes to walk across clean new roads and sidewalks. Add to that historic buildings on a routine maintenance schedule, those new aerodynamic buses, an eclectic professional sector, world class public transit etc.
Paris definitely has more physical beauty, but London has a unique kind of visionary ascendancy that I don't find anywhere else.
The closest analog to it in the world would be NYC, but in New York, the energy is more of a "get down and dirty" street vibe and physicality, giving the city its characteristic buzz, driven by the culture of ambition and drive among its blue collar workers. In London the ambition and drive is in the white collar sector, and its power projects transcendentally, not physically.
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